[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/%D7%91%D7%A6%D7%94/)

[dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [Biblical Hebrew](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/) / [ב](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/bet/)‎ / בִּצָּה‎

# בִּצָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1207

**swamp** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

swamp [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1207/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בִּצָּה: n.f. swamp [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1207/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. swamp, Jb 8:11 as place where rushes grow, cf. 40:21; בִּצֹּאתָ֯ו (Co ובצותיו) pl. sf. Ez 47:11 (‖ וּגְבָאָיו).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 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, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: swamp (2); swamps (1).

## In the verses

[Job 40:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.21/#tree)

תַּֽחַת־צֶאֱלִ֥ים יִשְׁכָּ֑ב בְּסֵ֖תֶר קָנֶ֣ה וּבִצָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* under thorny.lotus.plants it.lies in a.hiding.place of.reed\[s\] and swamp

*JPS 1917:* He lieth under the lotus-trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.

[Job 8:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.11/#tree)

הֲיִֽגְאֶה־גֹּ֭מֶא בְּלֹ֣א בִצָּ֑ה יִשְׂגֶּה־אָ֥חוּ בְלִי־מָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* will it.grow.tall? papyrus with not swamp will.it.grow? reed\[s\] not water

*JPS 1917:* Can the rush shoot up without mire? Can the reed-grass grow without water?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1207.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1207/): 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).