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# צְבִיָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6646

**female gazelle** — used 4 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

female gazelle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6646/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צְבִיָּה: n.f. id. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6646/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. id.;—תְּאוֹמֵי צ׳ Ct 4:5 = 7:4.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: gazelles (2); of a gazelle (2).

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 7:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.7.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.7.4/#tree)

שְׁנֵ֥י שָׁדַ֛יִךְ כִּשְׁנֵ֥י עֳפָרִ֖ים תָּאֳמֵ֥י צְבִיָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* the.two breasts your \[are\].like two fawns twins of.a.gazelle

*JPS 1917:* Thy two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a gazelle.

[Song of Songs 4:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.4.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.4.5/#tree)

שְׁנֵ֥י שָׁדַ֛יִךְ כִּשְׁנֵ֥י עֳפָרִ֖ים תְּאוֹמֵ֣י צְבִיָּ֑ה הָרוֹעִ֖ים בַּשּׁוֹשַׁנִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* the.two breasts your \[are\].like two fawns twins of.a.gazelle \[which\] graze among the lilies

*JPS 1917:* Thy two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a gazelle, which feed among the lilies.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6646.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6646/): 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).