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# צָבוּעַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6641

**coloured** — 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

coloured [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6641/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צָבוּעַ: adj. coloured, variegated [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6641/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. coloured, variegated (proposes pt. pass.);—עַיִט צ׳ Je 12:9 a variegated bird of prey.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 12:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.12.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.12.9/#tree)

הַעַ֨יִט צָב֤וּעַ נַחֲלָתִי֙ לִ֔י הַעַ֖יִט סָבִ֣יב עָלֶ֑יהָ לְכ֗וּ אִסְפ֛וּ כָּל־חַיַּ֥ת הַשָּׂדֶ֖ה הֵתָ֥יוּ לְאָכְלָֽה׃

*Word for word:* a bird.of.prey? speckled inheritance \[is\].my to me \[are\].bird\[s\] of.prey? all.around on it go gather every (the).animal of the.field bring.\[them\] for food

*JPS 1917:* Is My heritage unto Me as a speckled bird of prey? Are the birds of prey against her round about? Come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, bring them to devour.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6641.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6641/): 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).