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# חֲבַצֶּלֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2261

**meadow-saffron** — 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

meadow-saffron [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2261/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֲבַצֶּלֶת: n.f. meadow-saffron crocus [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2261/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. meadow-saffron or crocus (colchicum autumnale, Linn.) (Syriac ܚܰܡܨܰܠܳܝܬܳܐ, v. GesComm. Is 35:1 Löwp. 174, No. 128; Assyrian ḫabaṣillatu VR32, 62 is a marsh-plant, reed; cf. ZimBP 59 DlHA 34; Pr 82; also Chel.c. and crit. n.);—ח׳ הַשָּׁרוֹן שׁוֹשַׁנַּת הָעֲמָקִים Ct 2:1 (fig. of Shulamite), וְתָגֵל עֲרָבָה וְתִפְרַח כַּחֲבַצָּֽלֶת׃ Is 35:1 (narcissus Che Is 35:1 cf. Conder PEF, 1878, 46 TristrNHB 476 al.)

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 (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: \[am\] the crocus (1); a crocus (1).

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 2:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.2.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.2.1/#tree)

אֲנִי֙ חֲבַצֶּ֣לֶת הַשָּׁר֔וֹן שֽׁוֹשַׁנַּ֖ת הָעֲמָקִֽים׃

*Word for word:* I \[am\].the.crocus of.(the) Sharon (the).lily of the.valleys

*JPS 1917:* I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.

[Isaiah 35:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.35.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.35.1/#tree)

יְשֻׂשׂ֥וּםמִדְבָּ֖ר וְצִיָּ֑ה וְתָגֵ֧ל עֲרָבָ֛ה וְתִפְרַ֖ח כַּחֲבַצָּֽלֶת׃

*Word for word:* they will.rejoice \[the\].wilderness and.\[the\] dry.region and let.it.be.glad \[the\].desert.plain and it.will.bud like a.crocus

*JPS 1917:* The wilderness and the parched land shall be glad; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2261.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2261/): 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).