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# צֶבַע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6648

**dye** — used 3 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

dye [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6648/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צֶ֫בַע: dye, dyed stuff [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6648/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] dye, dyed stuff;—cstr. צ׳ רִקְמָתַיִם Ju 5:30 (perhaps del. צ׳, cf. GFM); pl. שְׁלַל צְבָעִים booty of dyed stuffs v 30(×2).

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: of colored cloth(s) (2); colored cloth (1).

## In the verses

[Judges 5:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.30/#tree)

הֲלֹ֨א יִמְצְא֜וּ יְחַלְּק֣וּ שָׁלָ֗ל רַ֤חַם רַחֲמָתַ֙יִם֙ לְרֹ֣אשׁ גֶּ֔בֶר שְׁלַ֤ל צְבָעִים֙ לְסִ֣יסְרָ֔א שְׁלַ֥ל צְבָעִ֖ים רִקְמָ֑ה צֶ֥בַע רִקְמָתַ֖יִם לְצַוְּארֵ֥י שָׁלָֽל׃

*Word for word:* ? not are.they.finding are.they.dividing.up? plunder a.womb two.wombs for.\[the\] head of.a.man plunder of.colored.cloth(s) for Sisera plunder of.colored.cloth(s) multicolored.material colored.cloth multicolored.material(s) for.\[the\] necks of.plunder

*JPS 1917:* 'Are they not finding, are they not dividing the spoil? A damsel, two damsels to every man; to Sisera a spoil of dyed garments, a spoil of dyed garments of embroidery, two dyed garments of broidery for the neck of every spoiler?'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6648.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6648/): 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).