Word

צָרְתָן

Tsârᵉthân · H6891 · Hebrew · proper noun · 3 occurrences

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Place

Zarethanfirst named in Joshua 3:162 verses

Meanings

Zarethan

Town, also known as Zeredah and Zererah; located in the Jordan valley; territory of Ephraim

Examples
Joshua 3:16 then the waters which were flowing down from above stood and rose up in one heap, a great distance away at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those which were flowing down toward the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off. So the people crossed opposite Jericho.
1 Kings 4:12 Baana the son of Ahilud in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is beside Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah as far as the other side of Jokmeam;
1 Kings 7:46 The king had them cast in the plain of the Jordan, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.

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

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

בַּעֲנָאBaana 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

אֵצֶלbeside 1
בֵּיןbetween, among 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

צַדside 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.

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.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Names of Locations003001010: צָרְתָן names Zarethan, the city beside which the Jordan's waters stand in a heap when Israel crosses in Joshua 3:16, near the region Baana governs in 1 Kings 4:12, and the clay ground where Solomon's bronze vessels are cast in 1 Kings 7:46.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6891. Tsarethan צָֽרְתָן proper name, of a location in Jordan valley, near ford,…

H6891. Tsarethan
צָֽרְתָן proper name, of a location in Jordan valley, near ford, BuhlGeogr. 181; exact site known; Jos 3:16 (Καθιαιρειν, ᵐ5 of L Καριαθιαρειμ), 1Ki 7:46 (Σειρα, ᵐ5 of L Σαρθαν) = צְרֵדָ֫תָה2Ch 4:17 (Αναμε [i.e. ἀνὰ μέσον] σιρδαθαι; Σα(ρι)δαθα; is Chronicles right?); צָֽרְחַ֫נָה 1Ki 4:12 (Σεσαθαν, ᵐ5 of L Σαρθαν) — compare צְרֵרָתָה Jdg 7:22, apparently same place; identity with צְרֵדָה 1Ki 11:26 is usually assumed, but not proven.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Names of Locations3 occurrences

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