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# צְבִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6643

**beauty** — used 18 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

beauty [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6643/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צְבִי: n.m. beauty, honour [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6643/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m.2 S 1:19 beauty, honour;—abs. צ 2 S 1:19 +, צֶ֑בִי Dn 8:9; cstr. צְבִי Is 13:19 +; pl. cstr. צִבְאוֹת Je 3:19 (so 𝔗 Ki Thes Hi Gf Ol§ 145 b Köii. 1, 584 al.; \> from צבא 𝔙 Gie al.);— beauty, decoration, צ׳ עֶדְיוֹ, of silver and gold Ez 7:20, of products of soil Is 4:2 (predict.). elsewhere in fig.: of drunkard’s chaplet, צ׳ תִפְאַרְתּוֹ Is 28:1, 4 (fig. of Samaria); עֲטֶרֶת צ׳ v 5 (of י׳); הַצּ׳ 2 S 1:19 (Saul and Jonathan); גְּאוֹן כָּל־צ׳, of Tyre Is 23:9; צ׳ מַמְלָכוֹת 13:19 (of Bab.); of land of Isr. (Judah), צְבִי הִיא לְכָל־הָאֲרָצוֹת Ez 20:6, 15, נַחֲלַת צְבִי צִבְאוֹת גּוֹיִם Je 3:19 (v. supr.) heritage of the beauty of beauties of the nations, i.e. most beauteous heritage; הַצּ׳ especially of Jerus. and temple Dn 8:9 (Bev), cf. אֶרֶץ הַצּ׳ 11:16, 41 (v. Dr), הַר צ׳־קֹדֶשׁ v 45 (i.e. temple-hill); of cities of Moab, צ׳ אֶרֶץ Ez 25:9. = honour, צ׳ לַצַּדִּיק Is 24:16.—Ez 26:20; read וְתִתְיַצְּבִי for וְנָתַתִּי צְבִי, so 𝔊 Co Berthol Toy Krae al.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 18 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 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: beauty (5); splendor (3); the beauty (3).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 1:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.1.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.1.19/#tree)

הַצְּבִי֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל עַל־בָּמוֹתֶ֖יךָ חָלָ֑ל אֵ֖יךְ נָפְל֥וּ גִבּוֹרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* the beauty O.Israel on places your.high \[is\].slain how! they.have.fallen \[the\].mighty.\[ones\]

*JPS 1917:* Thy beauty, O Israel, upon thy high places is slain! How are the mighty fallen!

[Isaiah 23:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.23.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.23.9/#tree)

יְהוָ֥ה צְבָא֖וֹת יְעָצָ֑הּ לְחַלֵּל֙ גְּא֣וֹן כָּל־צְבִ֔י לְהָקֵ֖ל כָּל־נִכְבַּדֵּי־אָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* Yahweh of.hosts he planned.it to profane \[the\].pride of.all splendor to treat.with.contempt all \[the\].honored.\[people\] of.\[the\].earth

*JPS 1917:* The LORD of hosts hath devised it, to pollute the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6643.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6643/): 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).