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# זָחַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2118

**remove** — used 2 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

remove [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2118/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זָחַח: vb. remove, displace [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2118/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. remove, displace (Arabic زَخَّ push, thrust away; comp. also Aramaic זוּחַ, ܙܳܚ move, move away (intrans.))— Impf. וְלֹא־יִזַּח הַחֹשֶׁן מֵעַל הָאֵפוֹד Ex 28:28 and that the breast-piece be not displaced etc., 39:21 (both P).

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it becomes detached (1); it will become detached (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 28:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.28/#tree)

וְיִרְכְּס֣וּ אֶת־הַ֠חֹשֶׁן מִֽטַּבְּעֹתָ֞יו אֶל־טַבְּעֹ֤ת הָאֵפֹד֙ בִּפְתִ֣יל תְּכֵ֔לֶת לִֽהְי֖וֹת עַל־חֵ֣שֶׁב הָאֵפ֑וֹד וְלֹֽא־יִזַּ֣ח הַחֹ֔שֶׁן מֵעַ֖ל הָאֵפֽוֹד׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.bind (et) the breastpiece from rings its to the.rings of the.ephod with a.cord of.violet.stuff to be on the.girdle of the.ephod and not it.will.become.detached the breastpiece from on the ephod

*JPS 1917:* And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a thread of blue, that it may be upon the skilfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod.

[Exodus 39:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.39.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.39.21/#tree)

וַיִּרְכְּס֣וּ אֶת־הַחֹ֡שֶׁן מִטַּבְּעֹתָיו֩ אֶל־טַבְּעֹ֨ת הָאֵפֹ֜ד בִּפְתִ֣יל תְּכֵ֗לֶת לִֽהְיֹת֙ עַל־חֵ֣שֶׁב הָאֵפֹ֔ד וְלֹֽא־יִזַּ֣ח הַחֹ֔שֶׁן מֵעַ֖ל הָאֵפֹ֑ד כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר צִוָּ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה אֶת־מֹשֶֽׁה׃

*Word for word:* and they.bound (et) the breastpiece from rings its to the.rings of the.ephod with a.cord of.violet.stuff to be on the.girdle of the.ephod and not it.becomes.detached the breastpiece from on the ephod just as he.had.commanded Yahweh (et) Moses

*JPS 1917:* And they did bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a thread of blue, that it might be upon the skilfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the ephod; as the LORD commanded Moses.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2118.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2118/): 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).