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# זָנַב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2179

**cut off** — 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

cut off [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2179/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זִנֵּב: vb.denom. cut off, or smite, the tail [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2179/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb.denom. cut off, or smite, the tail, only fig., of hostile attack in war; Pf. consec. 2 mpl. וְזִנַּבְתֶּם Jos 10:19 (sq. אֹתָם); Impf. 3 ms. וַיְזַנֵּב בְּךָ כָּל־הַנֶּחֱשָׁלִים Dt 25:18; in both = attack or smite in the rear.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it attacked in the rear (1); you will attack in the rear (1).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 25:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.25.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.25.18/#tree)

אֲשֶׁ֨ר קָֽרְךָ֜ בַּדֶּ֗רֶךְ וַיְזַנֵּ֤ב בְּךָ֙ כָּל־הַנֶּחֱשָׁלִ֣ים אַֽחַרֶ֔יךָוְאַתָּ֖ה עָיֵ֣ף וְיָגֵ֑עַ וְלֹ֥א יָרֵ֖א אֱלֹהִֽים׃

*Word for word:* (cmp) it met.you on the way and it.attacked.in.the.rear among you all \[those who.were\].straggling behind you and you \[were\].exhausted and weary and not it.feared God

*JPS 1917:* how he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, all that were enfeebled in thy rear, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.

[Joshua 10:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.10.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.10.19/#tree)

וְאַתֶּם֙ אַֽל־תַּעֲמֹ֔דוּ רִדְפוּ֙ אַחֲרֵ֣י אֹֽיְבֵיכֶ֔ם וְזִנַּבְתֶּ֖ם אוֹתָ֑ם אַֽל־תִּתְּנ֗וּם לָבוֹא֙ אֶל־עָ֣רֵיהֶ֔ם כִּ֧י נְתָנָ֛ם יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֖ם בְּיֶדְכֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and you do.not delay pursue after enemies your and you.will.attack.in.the.rear them do.not permit them to go into cities their (dm) he has.given.them Yahweh God your in hand your

*JPS 1917:* but stay not ye; pursue after your enemies, and smite the hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities; for the LORD your God hath delivered them into your hand.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2179.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2179/): 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).