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# צֹאָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6675

**filth** — used 5 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

filth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6675/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צֹאָה: n.f. filth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6675/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. filth;—abs. צ׳ Is 28:8 (of drunkards’ vomit, cf. קִיא); צ׳ fig. of iniquity, cstr. צֹאַת Is 4:4, sf. צֹאָתוֹ Pr 30:12; specif. of human excrement (= \[צֵאָה\]) sf. צֹאָתָם 2 K 18:27 = Is 36:12 (both Qr; Kt חר(א)יהם, cf. \[חֶרֶא\] p. 351 supr.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 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: excrement (3); filth (1); the excrement (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 28:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.8/#tree)

כִּ֚י כָּל־שֻׁלְחָנ֔וֹת מָלְא֖וּ קִ֣יא צֹאָ֑ה בְּלִ֖י מָקֽוֹם׃ס

*Word for word:* (dm) all \[the\].tables they.are.full vomit filth not room

*JPS 1917:* For all tables are full of filthy vomit, and no place is clean.

[Proverbs 30:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.12/#tree)

דּ֭וֹר טָה֣וֹר בְּעֵינָ֑יו וּ֝מִצֹּאָת֗וֹ לֹ֣א רֻחָֽץ׃

*Word for word:* a.generation \[is\].pure in its.own eyes and from excrement its not it.has.been.washed

*JPS 1917:* There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6675.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6675/): 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).