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# כָּזְבִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3579

**Cozbi** — 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

Cozbi [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3579/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כָּזְבִּי: n.pr.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3579/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. a woman of Midian Nu 25:15, 18, 𝔊 Χασβ(ε)ι.

Why these entries: BDB: headword without dagesh, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[was\] Cozbi (1); of Cozbi (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 25:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.25.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.25.15/#tree)

וְשֵׁ֨ם הָֽאִשָּׁ֧ה הַמֻּכָּ֛ה הַמִּדְיָנִ֖ית כָּזְבִּ֣י בַת־צ֑וּר רֹ֣אשׁ אֻמּ֥וֹת בֵּֽית־אָ֛ב בְּמִדְיָ֖ן הֽוּא׃פ

*Word for word:* and the.name of the.woman \[who was\].struck.down the.Midianite \[woman\] \[was\].Cozbi the.daughter of.Zur \[was\].a.chief of.tribes of.a.house of.a.father in Midian he

*JPS 1917:* And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head of the people of a fathers' house in Midian.

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

כִּ֣י צֹרְרִ֥ים הֵם֙ לָכֶ֔ם בְּנִכְלֵיהֶ֛ם אֲשֶׁר־נִכְּל֥וּ לָכֶ֖ם עַל־דְּבַר־פְּע֑וֹר וְעַל־דְּבַ֞ר כָּזְבִּ֨י בַת־נְשִׂ֤יא מִדְיָן֙ אֲחֹתָ֔ם הַמֻּכָּ֥ה בְיוֹם־הַמַּגֵּפָ֖ה עַל־דְּבַר־פְּעֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* (dm) \[are\].treating.as.foes they (to) you by deceitfulness(es) their which they.have.dealt.deceptively to you on the.matter of.Peor and on the.matter of.Cozbi the.daughter of.the.leader of.Midian sister their \[who was\].struck.down on the.day of the.plague on the.matter of.Peor

*JPS 1917:* for they harass you, by their wiles wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3579.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3579/): 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).