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# כִּידוֹד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3590

**spark** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

spark [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3590/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כִּידוֹד: n.m. spark [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3590/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. spark (from above √, = strike out a spark, according to Thes RobGes, cf. Sta§ 216 (doubtfully), LagBN 182 Köii. 147, § 71. 1; NH כִּדּוֹד = rod (of iron, etc.); כִּדּוֹדִיּוֹת שֶׁל אֵשׁ i.e. red-hot rods; but BaNB § 142, 139 der. this and כַּדְכֹּד from √ כיד = Arabic كيد, كَادَ emit fire (said of a fire-stick, زَنْدٌ, Lane2639 b, cf. 1257 b), and so Buhl)—only pl. cstr. כִּידוֹדֵי אֵשׁ Jb 41:11 of breath of crocodile (‖ לַפִּידִים).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: sparks (1).

## In the verses

[Job 41:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.11/#tree)

מִ֭פִּיו לַפִּידִ֣ים יַהֲלֹ֑כוּ כִּיד֥וֹדֵי אֵ֝֗שׁ יִתְמַלָּֽטוּ׃

*Word for word:* from mouth its torches they.go sparks of.fire they.escape

*JPS 1917:* Out of his mouth go burning torches, and sparks of fire leap forth.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3590.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3590/): 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).