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צִלְצָל

Biblical Hebrew

whirring — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

whirring tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צִלְצָל: whirring, buzzing tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.[m.] whirring, buzzing;—cstr. אֶרֶץ צִלְצַל כְּנָפָ֑יִם Is 18:1 land of buzzing of (insects’) wings (so prob.; other views v. in Di).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of whirring (1).

In the verses

Isaiah 18:1 · tree →

ה֥וֹי אֶ֖רֶץ צִלְצַ֣ל כְּנָפָ֑יִם אֲשֶׁ֥ר מֵעֵ֖בֶר לְנַֽהֲרֵי־כֽוּשׁ׃

Word for word: woe.to! a.land of.whirring of.wings which [is].from.[the] other.side of the.rivers of.Cush

JPS 1917: Ah, land of the buzzing of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;

On Mova

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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