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# זָנָב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2180

**tail** — used 11 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

tail [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2180/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זָנָב: n.m. tail end, stump [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2180/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ju 15:4 tail, also (fig.) end, stump (NH id., Assyrian zibbatu HomNS 368, Ethiopic ዘነብ Arabic ذَنَبٌ, Aramaic ܕܽܘܢܒܳܐ, דּוּנְבָּא, דַּנְבָּא)—ז׳ abs. Ju 15:4(×2) + 5 times; sf. זְנָבוֹ Jb 40:17; pl. זְנָבוֹת Ju 15:4; cstr. זַנְבוֹת Is 7:4;— tail of fox Ju 15:4(×3), of serpent Ex 4:4 (J), of hippopot. Jb 40:17; fig. of common people, opp. to rulers Is 9:13; 19:15 (in both, רֹאשׁ וְזָנָב, ‖ כִּפָּה וְאַגְמוֹן; Is 9:14 is incorrect gloss); of subject-people (opp. רֹאשׁ) Dt 28:13, 44. end, stump (of firebrand, אוּד) in metaph. Is 7:4.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 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 (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: tail (9); tails (1); the stumps (1).

## In the verses

[Job 40:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.17/#tree)

יַחְפֹּ֣ץ זְנָב֣וֹ כְמוֹ־אָ֑רֶז גִּידֵ֖י פַחֲדָ֣יו יְשֹׂרָֽגוּ׃

*Word for word:* it.stiffens tail its like a.cedar the.tendons its.thighs his they.are.intertwined

*JPS 1917:* He straineth his tail like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are knit together.

[Isaiah 9:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.9.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.9.13/#tree)

וַיַּכְרֵ֨ת יְהוָ֜ה מִיִּשְׂרָאֵ֗ל רֹ֧אשׁ וְזָנָ֛ב כִּפָּ֥ה וְאַגְמ֖וֹן י֥וֹם אֶחָֽד׃

*Word for word:* and he.cut.off Yahweh from Israel head and tail palm.branch and bulrush day one

*JPS 1917:* Therefore the LORD doth cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2180.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2180/): 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).