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# זַן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2177

**kind** — 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

kind [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2177/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זַן: kind, sort [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2177/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] (late) kind, sort (Aramaic ܙܶܢ, זַן; √ dub.; cf. De ψ 144:13)—מִזַּן אֶל זַן ψ 144:13 from kind to kind, i.e. all sorts, kinds; pl. וּזְנִים 2 Ch 16:14 (various) sorts.

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 144:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.144.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.144.13/#tree)

מְזָוֵ֣ינוּ מְלֵאִים֮ מְפִיקִ֥ים מִזַּ֗ן אֶ֫ל־זַ֥ן צֹאונֵ֣נוּ מַ֭אֲלִיפוֹת מְרֻבָּב֗וֹת בְּחוּצוֹתֵֽינוּ׃

*Word for word:* granaries our \[will.be\].full providing from kind to kind flocks our \[will.be\].producing.thousands increasing.ten.thousandfold in our.open places

*JPS 1917:* Whose garners are full, affording all manner of store; whose sheep increase by thousands and ten thousands in our fields;

[2 Chronicles 16:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.16.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.16.14/#tree)

וַיִּקְבְּרֻ֣הוּ בְקִבְרֹתָ֗יו אֲשֶׁ֣ר כָּֽרָה־לוֹ֮ בְּעִ֣יר דָּוִיד֒ וַיַּשְׁכִּיבֻ֗הוּ בַּמִּשְׁכָּב֙ אֲשֶׁ֤ר מִלֵּא֙ בְּשָׂמִ֣ים וּזְנִ֔ים מְרֻקָּחִ֖ים בְּמִרְקַ֣חַת מַעֲשֶׂ֑ה וַיִּשְׂרְפוּ־ל֥וֹ שְׂרֵפָ֖ה גְּדוֹלָ֥ה עַד־לִמְאֹֽד׃פ

*Word for word:* and people buried.him in his.own grave(s) which he.had.dug for himself in the.city of.David and they made.him.lie in the.lying place which he.had.filled spices and kinds mixed as ointment.mixture of.work and they.burned for him a.burning great up.to (to) muchness

*JPS 1917:* And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had hewn out for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers' art; and they made a very great burning for him.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2177.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2177/): 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).