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# צְבֹאיִם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6636

**Zeboiim** — 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

Zeboiim [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6636/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צְבֹיִים: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6636/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. near Sodom, Gn 14:2, 8; Dt 29:22 = צְבֹיִם Gn 10:19 = צְבֹאִים Ho 11:8 Kt (צְבוֹיִם Qr); Σεβωειμ.

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: Zeboiim (3); of Zeboiim (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 14:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.14.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.14.2/#tree)

עָשׂ֣וּ מִלְחָמָ֗ה אֶת־בֶּ֙רַע֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ סְדֹ֔ם וְאֶת־בִּרְשַׁ֖ע מֶ֣לֶךְ עֲמֹרָ֑ה שִׁנְאָ֣ב ׀ מֶ֣לֶךְ אַדְמָ֗ה וְשֶׁמְאֵ֙בֶר֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ צְבוֹיִ֔יםוּמֶ֥לֶךְ בֶּ֖לַע הִיא־צֹֽעַר׃

*Word for word:* they.made war with Bera the.king of.Sodom and with Birsha the.king of.Gomorrah Shinab the.king of.Admah and Shemeber the.king of.Zeboiim and the.king of.Bela that \[is\].Zoar

*JPS 1917:* that they made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela — the same is Zoar.

[Genesis 10:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.19/#tree)

וַֽיְהִ֞י גְּב֤וּל הַֽכְּנַעֲנִי֙ מִצִּידֹ֔ן בֹּאֲכָ֥ה גְרָ֖רָה עַד־עַזָּ֑ה בֹּאֲכָ֞ה סְדֹ֧מָה וַעֲמֹרָ֛ה וְאַדְמָ֥ה וּצְבֹיִ֖ם עַד־לָֽשַׁע׃

*Word for word:* and it.was the.border of the.Canaanite\[s\] from Sidon going your towards Gerar to Gaza going your towards Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim to Lasha

*JPS 1917:* And the border of the Canaanite was from Zidon, as thou goest toward Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest toward Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, unto Lasha.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6636/): 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).