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# צֶאֱלִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6628

**lotus** — 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

lotus [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6628/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צֶאֱלִים: n.m.pl. lotus [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6628/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m.pl. a kind of lotus (Rhamnus (more exactly Zizyphus), Lotus \[Linn.\], thorny lotus (not sacred Nymphaea Lotus); Saad. ضَالٌ, cf. AW De Job 2, Syriac ܥܳܐܠܴܐ, v. Löwp. 275);—Jb 40:21, 22.

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, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: thorny lotus plants (2).

## In the verses

[Job 40:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.21/#tree)

תַּֽחַת־צֶאֱלִ֥ים יִשְׁכָּ֑ב בְּסֵ֖תֶר קָנֶ֣ה וּבִצָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* under thorny.lotus.plants it.lies in a.hiding.place of.reed\[s\] and swamp

*JPS 1917:* He lieth under the lotus-trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.

[Job 40:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.22/#tree)

יְסֻכֻּ֣הוּ צֶאֱלִ֣ים צִֽלֲל֑וֹ יְ֝סֻבּ֗וּהוּ עַרְבֵי־נָֽחַל׃

*Word for word:* they cover.it thorny.lotus.plants shade its they surround.it \[the\].poplars of.\[the\].wadi

*JPS 1917:* The lotus-trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6628.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6628/): 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).