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# צְבִי

Biblical Hebrew

**gazelle** — used 11 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

gazelle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/lemma_3a_5e6_5b0_5d1_5b4_5d9/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צְבִי²: n.m. gazelle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/lemma_3a_5e6_5b0_5d1_5b4_5d9/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m.Is 13:14 gazelle;—צ׳ abs. Dt 12:15 +; pl. צְבָיִם 2 S 2:18, צְבָאיִם 1 Ch 12:9 (Gi Baer; van d. H. v 8), צְבָאוֹת Ct 2:7; 3:5;—gazelle, allowed as food Dt 14:5, cf. 12:15, 22 (although not for sacrif., Dr; all + אַיָּל), so 15:22 (+ אַיָּל, יַחְמוּר, etc.), v. 1 K 5:3; sim. of swiftness 2 S 2:18; 1 Ch 12:9; v. supr., Pr 6:5; of grace and beauty Ct 2:9, 17; 8:14 (cf. JacobArab. Dichter iv. 20 f.); hence used in adjuration 2:7; 3:5 (+ אילות); צ׳ מֻדָּח Is 13:14, sim. of fugitives.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: gazelle (7); a gazelle (3); the gazelles (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 6:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.6.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.6.5/#tree)

הִ֭נָּצֵל כִּצְבִ֣י מִיָּ֑ד וּ֝כְצִפּ֗וֹר מִיַּ֥ד יָקֽוּשׁ׃פ

*Word for word:* deliver.yourself like a.gazelle from a.hand and like a.bird from.\[the\] hand of.a.fowler

*JPS 1917:* Deliver thyself as a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

[Deuteronomy 14:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.14.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.14.5/#tree)

אַיָּ֥ל וּצְבִ֖י וְיַחְמ֑וּר וְאַקּ֥וֹ וְדִישֹׁ֖ן וּתְא֥וֹ וָזָֽמֶר׃

*Word for word:* a.deer and a.gazelle and a.roe-deer and a.wild.goat and an.ibex and an.antelope and a.mountain.sheep

*JPS 1917:* the hart, and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the antelope, and the mountain-sheep.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e6_5b0_5d1_5b4_5d9.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/lemma_3a_5e6_5b0_5d1_5b4_5d9/): 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).