צְפַרְדֵּעַ
tsᵉphardêaʻ · H6854 · Hebrew · 13 occurrences
Thing
- FrogFish, frogs, and mollusks15 verses
Meanings
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frogs, including the plague of frogs
A small amphibious animal about 70 mm long with large hind legs for jumping, brown or olive-green, laying eggs that hatch as tadpoles, identified as the Edible Frog or Spotted Frog, regarded as unclean and associated with demons by Egyptians and Persians
ExamplesExodus 8:2 “But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I am going to strike your entire territory with frogs.
Exodus 8:3 “The Nile will swarm with frogs, which will come up and go into your house, and into your bedroom and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants, and on your people, and into your ovens and kneading bowls.
Exodus 8:4 “So the frogs will come up on you, your people, and on all your servants.”’”
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שׂוּםto put, to set, to place 1
What it doesIt is the subject
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- עָלָהto go up 2
- מוּתto die 1
- סוּרto turn aside, to depart, to remove 1
What is done to itIt is the object
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- עָלָהto go up 2
- כָּרַתto cut off, to make (a covenant) 1
- סוּרto turn aside, to depart, to remove 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- דָּבָרword, thing, matter 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- βάτραχος bátrachos · G944 · frog
- Greek βάτραχος is the direct translation equivalent of Hebrew צְפַרְדֵּעַ, both denoting the amphibian 'frog' with identical semantic scope across biblical contexts (plague narratives in Exodus and apocalyptic imagery in Revelation).
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Aquatic Animals001001002004
- צְפַרְדֵּעַ denotes a frog, as of the frogs that come up on the land of Egypt in Exodus 7:27, 7:28, and 7:29, and the plague of frogs the LORD threatens Pharaoh with in Exodus 8:1 and 8:2.
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6854. tsephardea צְפַרְדֵּעַ noun feminineExo 8:2 (compare also AlbrZAW xv (1895), 322…
צְפַרְדֵּעַ noun feminineExo 8:2 (compare also AlbrZAW xv (1895), 322 Ges§§ 135o 145o) frogs (Arabic , etc.; Aramaic אוּרְדְּעָא עוּדְּעָנַיָּא,, ); — frogs, collective Exo 8:2; Psa 78:45; plural צִפַרְדְּעִים Exodus 7:27; Exodus 7:28; Exodus 7:29; Exo 8:1; Exo 8:3; Exo 8:4; Exo 8:5; Exo 8:7; Exo 8:8; Exo 8:9; Psa 105:30.
צֶ֫פֶת see II צפה.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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