צְרִיחַ
tsᵉrîyach · H6877 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
A word for 2 things
Meanings
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cellar, vault
Underground space, used as hiding place
ExamplesJudges 9:46 When all the leaders of the tower of Shechem heard about it, they entered the inner chamber of the temple of El-berith.
Judges 9:49 So all the people also cut down, each one, his branch and followed Abimelech, and put them on top of the inner chamber and set the inner chamber on fire over those inside, so that all the people of the tower of Shechem also died, about a thousand men and women.
1 Samuel 13:6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were hard-pressed), then the people kept themselves hidden in caves, in crevices, in cliffs, in crypts, and in pits.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בַּיִתhouse, household 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יָצַתto set fire on 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- אֵלto, toward 2
- עַלon, upon, over, against 2
- בin/on/with 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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Near synonyms 3 words
- מָצוּד mâtsûwd · H4686 · prey, victim, (trammel) net
- מְצוּדָה denotes a fortified place or stronghold, overlapping semantically with צְרִיחַ in contexts where both refer to defensive elevated positions or fortifications.
- מִגְדָּל migdâl · H4026 · tower
- מִגְדָּל is the common Hebrew term for tower or elevated structure, closely overlapping with the 'high place' and fortified tower sense of צְרִיחַ.
- מָעוֹז mâʻôwz · H4581 · stronghold, refuge
- מָעוֹז denotes a place of strength and refuge, semantically overlapping with צְרִיחַ in its sense of a fortified hold or defensive position.
In the other Testament 1 word
- πύργος pýrgos · G4444 · tower, watchtower
- Greek πύργος is the standard translation equivalent for Hebrew defensive/elevated structures, including watchtowers and fortified places; it captures the 'high place' and 'stronghold' senses of צְרִיחַ.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Buildings001003002001
- צְרִיחַ denotes an inner chamber or stronghold, as of the inner chamber of the temple of El-berith the leaders of Shechem enter in Judges 9:46, the chamber Abimelech sets on fire over them in Judges 9:49, and the crypts and pits Israel's men hide themselves in when hard-pressed in 1 Samuel 13:6.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6877. tseriach צְרִיחַ noun [masculine] perhaps excavation, underground chamber; — ׳צ…
צְרִיחַ noun [masculine] perhaps excavation, underground chamber; — ׳צ absolute Jdg 9:49, construct Jdg 9:46; plural צְרִחִים 1Sa 13:6; — used as hiding-places 1Sa 13:6 (+ בֹּרוֺת סְלָעִים, חֲוָחִים, מְעָרוֺת,); as refuge Jdg 9:46 (where connected with shrine), Jdg 9:49 (Vrss stronghold; on uncertainty of meaning see GFM).
צֹרִי see I. צֹר. צְרֻיָה צְרִי, צֳרִי, see צרה. above,
צרך (√ of following; Late Hebrew צָרַךְ have need of; Arabic be needy, so Aramaic צְרַךְ, (צ, = !); Christian-Palestinian Aramaic χρεία).
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
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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