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# צְפִיר

Biblical Aramaic

**he-goat** — 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

he-goat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1510/lemma_3a_5e6_5b0_5e4_5b4_5d9_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צְפִיר: n.m. he-goat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1510/lemma_3a_5e6_5b0_5e4_5b4_5d9_5e8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. he-goat (v. BH V. צפר);—pl. cstr. צְפִירֵי עִזִּין Ezr 6:17.

### Jastrow 1903

צְפִיר: young he-goat Fem [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1510/lemma_3a_5e6_5b0_5e4_5b4_5d9_5e8/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** (late b. h. I) young he-goat. Targ. Lev. XVI, 9, sq. Targ. Gen. XXXVII, 31. Targ. Y. II, Gen. XXXVIII, 26 צַפִּירָא; a. fr.—Yoma 66ᵇ מאי שהי (ל)צ׳ דין דדרי חובין סגיאין Ms. M. (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note; Ar. משוך צפירה וכ׳) why does this scape-goat tarry that carries so many sins?.—Pl. צְפִירִין, צְפִירַיָּא. Targ. Lev. XVI, 7, sq.; a. fr.—Fem. צְפִירְתָּא. Ib. IV, 28; a. e.—Pes. 42ᵇ top צ׳ דלא אִפְּתַח (sub. רחמה) a she-goat that has not given birth (Ms. M. 2 ציפרתא a bird that has not laid; v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 5, a. Ar. s. v. צפיר); Gitt. 69ᵇ טחלא דצ׳ וכ׳ Rashi (ed. ציפרתא) the milt of &c.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (16 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Ezra 6:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.17/#tree)

וְהַקְרִ֗בוּ לַחֲנֻכַּת֮ בֵּית־אֱלָהָ֣א דְנָה֒ תּוֹרִ֣ין מְאָ֔ה דִּכְרִ֣ין מָאתַ֔יִן אִמְּרִ֖ין אַרְבַּ֣ע מְאָ֑ה וּצְפִירֵ֨י עִזִּ֜ין לְחַטָּאָ֤ה עַל־כָּל־יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ תְּרֵֽי־עֲשַׂ֔ר לְמִנְיָ֖ן שִׁבְטֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and they.offered for the.dedication of.the.house of.(the) God this bulls one.hundred rams two.hundred lambs four hundred and he-goats of.goats for a.sin.offering on all Israel two.plus ten to the.number of.the.tribes of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* And they offered at the dedication of this house of God a hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin-offering for all Israel, twelve he-goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.

## In Targum Onkelos

Number 229 of the commonest words of Targum Onkelos, the Aramaic translation of the Torah: used 24 times there, in the forms צְפִיר (18); וּצְפִיר (6).

[Numbers 7:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.7.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.7.16/#tree) · Onkelos, then the Hebrew

צְפִיר בַּר עִזִּין חַד לְחַטָּאתָא

שְׂעִיר־עִזִּ֥ים אֶחָ֖ד לְחַטָּֽאת׃

*Word for word:* a.male.goat of.goats one to a.sin.offering

*JPS 1917:* one male of the goats for a sin-offering;

[Numbers 7:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.7.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.7.22/#tree) · Onkelos, then the Hebrew

צְפִיר בַּר עִזִין חַד לְחַטָאתָא

שְׂעִיר־עִזִּ֥ים אֶחָ֖ד לְחַטָּֽאת׃

*Word for word:* a.male.goat of.goats one to a.sin.offering

*JPS 1917:* one male of the goats for a sin-offering;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e6_5b0_5e4_5b4_5d9_5e8.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1510/lemma_3a_5e6_5b0_5e4_5b4_5d9_5e8/): 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).