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# זֶבַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2078

**Zebah** — used 12 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

Zebah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2078/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זֶ֫בַח²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2078/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. a Midianite king Ju 8:5, 6, 7, 10, 12(×2), 15(×2), 18, 21(×2) ψ 83:12, 𝔊 Ζεβεε.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: Zebah (10); of Zebah (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 83:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.83.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.83.12/#tree)

שִׁיתֵ֣מוֹ נְ֭דִיבֵמוֹ כְּעֹרֵ֣ב וְכִזְאֵ֑ב וּֽכְזֶ֥בַח וּ֝כְצַלְמֻנָּ֗ע כָּל־נְסִיכֵֽמוֹ׃

*Word for word:* make them their.noble \[people\] like Oreb and like Zeeb and like Zebah and like Zalmunna all princes their

*JPS 1917:* Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and like Zebah and Zalmunna all their princes;

[Judges 8:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.8.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.8.6/#tree)

וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ שָׂרֵ֣י סֻכּ֔וֹת הֲ֠כַף זֶ֧בַח וְצַלְמֻנָּ֛ע עַתָּ֖ה בְּיָדֶ֑ךָ כִּֽי־נִתֵּ֥ן לִֽצְבָאֲךָ֖ לָֽחֶם׃

*Word for word:* and he.said the.officials of.Succoth \[is\].the palm? of.Zebah and Zalmunna now in hand your (cmp) we.will.give to army your bread

*JPS 1917:* And the princes of Succoth said: 'Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thy power, that we should give bread unto thine army?'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2078.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2078/): 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).