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# זָכַךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2141

**be bright** — used 4 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

be bright [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2141/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זָכַךְ: vb. be bright, clean, pure [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2141/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be bright, clean, pure (kindred with foregoing. Only La Jb)— Pf. only 3 mpl. זַכּ֫וּ;— be bright, shining, fig. of splendour of nobles ז׳ נְזִירִים מִשֶּׁלֶג La 4:7 (‖ צַחוּ מֵחָלָב). be clean, pure in God’s sight, of heavens Jb 15:15, of stars 25:5 (‖ יַאֲהִיל of moon; cf. also יִזְכֶּה 15:14; 25:4). cleanse, only Pf. 1 s. וַהֲזִכּוֹתִי בְּבֹר כַּפָּֽי ׃ Jb 9:30, fig. of making morally spotless (‖ הִתְרָחַצְתִּי).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 2 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, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: they are pure (2); I cleansed (1); they were bright (1).

## In the verses

[Job 9:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.30/#tree)

אִם־הִתְרָחַ֥צְתִּי בְמֵי־שָׁ֑לֶג וַ֝הֲזִכּ֗וֹתִי בְּבֹ֣ר כַּפָּֽי׃

*Word for word:* if I.washed.myself in water of.snow and I.cleansed with potash palms my

*JPS 1917:* If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

[Job 15:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.15/#tree)

הֵ֣ן בִּ֭קְדֹשָׁיו לֹ֣א יַאֲמִ֑ין וְ֝שָׁמַ֗יִם לֹא־זַכּ֥וּ בְעֵינָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* there! in his.holy \[ones\] not he.trusts and.\[the\] heavens not they.are.pure in eyes his

*JPS 1917:* Behold, He putteth no trust in His holy ones; yea, the heavens are not clean in His sight.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2141.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2141/): 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).