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# צָבֶה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6639

**swelling** — 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

swelling [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6639/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צָבֶה: adj. swelling, swollen [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6639/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. swelling, swollen;—f. צָבָה Nu 5:21 (as foregoing).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Numbers 5:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.5.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.5.21/#tree)

וְהִשְׁבִּ֨יעַ הַכֹּהֵ֥ן אֶֽת־הָֽאִשָּׁה֮ בִּשְׁבֻעַ֣ת הָאָלָה֒ וְאָמַ֤ר הַכֹּהֵן֙ לָֽאִשָּׁ֔ה יִתֵּ֨ן יְהוָ֥ה אוֹתָ֛ךְ לְאָלָ֥ה וְלִשְׁבֻעָ֖ה בְּת֣וֹךְ עַמֵּ֑ךְ בְּתֵ֨ת יְהוָ֤ה אֶת־יְרֵכֵךְ֙ נֹפֶ֔לֶת וְאֶת־בִּטְנֵ֖ךְ צָבָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.make.swear the priest (et) the woman with the.oath of the.curse and he.will.say the priest to the woman may.he.make Yahweh you into a.curse and into a.oath among people your when makes Yahweh (et) thigh your falling and (et) belly your swollen

*JPS 1917:* then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman — the LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to fall away, and thy belly to swell;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6639.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6639/): 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).