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# צָבָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6638

**swell** — 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

swell [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6638/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צָבָה: vb. swell, swell up [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6638/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. swell, swell up (NH id.);— Pf. 3 fs. consec. וְצָֽבְתָה Nu 5:27; appar. Inf. cstr. לַצְבּוֹת v 22, Qal לִצְבּוֹת Di Ol§ 78 c Sta§ 114 a, 2; both of adulteress’ belly.—צֹבֶיהָ Is 29:7 v. צבא.

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 (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it will swell (1); make swell (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 5:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.5.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.5.22/#tree)

וּ֠בָאוּ הַמַּ֨יִם הַמְאָרְרִ֤ים הָאֵ֙לֶּה֙ בְּֽמֵעַ֔יִךְ לַצְבּ֥וֹת בֶּ֖טֶן וְלַנְפִּ֣ל יָרֵ֑ךְ וְאָמְרָ֥ה הָאִשָּׁ֖ה אָמֵ֥ן ׀ אָמֵֽן׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.go the waters \[which\].bring a.curse (the) these in your.inward parts to make.swell a.belly and to make.fall a.thigh and she.will.say the woman amen amen

*JPS 1917:* and this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, and make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to fall away'; and the woman shall say: 'Amen, Amen.'

[Numbers 5:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.5.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.5.27/#tree)

וְהִשְׁקָ֣הּ אֶת־הַמַּ֗יִם וְהָיְתָ֣ה אִֽם־נִטְמְאָה֮ וַתִּמְעֹ֣ל מַ֣עַל בְּאִישָׁהּ֒ וּבָ֨אוּ בָ֜הּ הַמַּ֤יִם הַמְאָֽרֲרִים֙ לְמָרִ֔ים וְצָבְתָ֣ה בִטְנָ֔הּ וְנָפְלָ֖ה יְרֵכָ֑הּ וְהָיְתָ֧ה הָאִשָּׁ֛ה לְאָלָ֖ה בְּקֶ֥רֶב עַמָּֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and he will.make.her.drink (et) the waters and she.will.be if she.has.made.herself.unclean and she.has.acted.unfaithfully unfaithfulness against husband her and they.will.go in her the waters \[which\].bring a.curse to bitter.\[things\] and it.will.swell belly her and it.will.fall thigh her and she.will.become the woman (into).a curse in the.midst her.people her

*JPS 1917:* And when he hath made her drink the water, then it shall come to pass, if she be defiled, and have acted unfaithfully against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away; and the woman shall be a curse among her people.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6638.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6638/): 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).