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# זֶרֶד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2218

**Zared** — 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

Zared [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2218/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זֶ֫רֶד: n.pr.fl. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2218/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.fl. (√ dub.; on form cf. LgBN77)—נַחַל זֶ֫רֶד Dt 2:13; נַחַל זָ֑רֶד Nu 21:12 (JE), Dt 2:13, 14; identification disputed; RobBR ii. 157 proposes Wadyel-Aḥsy (= נַחַל הָעֲרָבִים Is 15:7), between Moab & Edom; Sail Saʿîde (Kn), chief source of Arnon from SE. (Burckh Syrien, 635), or W. Kerak (Ges Ke Di); so also GASmGeog.557.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: of Zered (4).

## In the verses

[Numbers 21:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.12/#tree)

מִשָּׁ֖ם נָסָ֑עוּ וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ בְּנַ֥חַל זָֽרֶד׃

*Word for word:* from there they.set.out and they.encamped in the.wadi of.Zered

*JPS 1917:* From thence they journeyed, and pitched in the valley of Zered.

[Deuteronomy 2:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.2.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.2.13/#tree)

עַתָּ֗ה קֻ֛מוּ וְעִבְר֥וּ לָכֶ֖ם אֶת־נַ֣חַל זָ֑רֶד וַֽנַּעֲבֹ֖ר אֶת־נַ֥חַל זָֽרֶד׃

*Word for word:* now arise and pass.over (for yourselves (et) the.wadi of.Zered and we.passed.over (et) the.wadi of.Zered

*JPS 1917:* Now rise up, and get you over the brook Zered.' And we went over the brook Zered.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2218.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2218/): 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).