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# צְבוּ

Biblical Aramaic

**thing** — used 1 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

thing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1510/lemma_3a_5e6_5b0_5d1_5d5_5bc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צְבוּ: n.f. thing, anything [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1510/lemma_3a_5e6_5b0_5d1_5d5_5bc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. thing, anything (orig. purpose) (Palm. צבו Lzb357 SAC100 Cooke266, Syriac ܨܒܽܘܬܳܐ, all thing; cf. NH חֵפֶץ thing, from הָפֵץ delight in, crave);—Dn 6:18.

### Jastrow 1903

צְבוּ: will, desire; willingness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1510/lemma_3a_5e6_5b0_5d1_5d5_5bc/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** (צְבֵי) will, desire; willingness. Targ. Y. Lev. VIII, 15 (ed. Vien. צְבוֹ). Targ. Y. Gen. XXIV, 5. Targ. Job XXXI, 16 ed. Lag. (oth. ed. צַבְאוּת); a. e.—Yoma 86ᵇ בצ׳ נפשיה לקטלא נפיק וצ׳ ביתיה וכ׳ of his own free will he (I, the judge) goes to meet death (divine punishment for wrong judgment), and the desire of his household he does not do (he must neglect his own affairs), and empty-handed he comes to his home again; Snh. 7ᵇ ברעות נפשיה … וצבי ביתיה וכ׳.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (14 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Daniel 6:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.18/#tree)

וְהֵיתָ֙יִת֙ אֶ֣בֶן חֲדָ֔ה וְשֻׂמַ֖ת עַל־פֻּ֣ם גֻּבָּ֑א וְחַתְמַ֨הּ מַלְכָּ֜א בְּעִזְקְתֵ֗הּ וּבְעִזְקָת֙ רַבְרְבָנ֔וֹהִי דִּ֛י לָא־תִשְׁנֵ֥א צְב֖וּ בְּדָנִיֵּֽאל׃

*Word for word:* and it.was.brought a.stone one and it.was.set over the.mouth of the.den and he sealed.it the king with signet-ring his and with the.signet-rings of his.nobles that not it.will.change anything with Daniel

*JPS 1917:* And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e6_5b0_5d1_5d5_5bc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1510/lemma_3a_5e6_5b0_5d1_5d5_5bc/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

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).