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# צָבַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6651

**heap up** — used 7 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

heap up [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6651/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צָבַר: vb. heap up [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6651/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. heap up (NH id.; Aramaic צְבַר; Syriac ܨܒܰܪ is prate, chatter, rave; Arabic ضَبَرَ is collect, bind together; cf. further Dozy);— Impf. 3 ms. יִצְבֹּר Gn 41:49 ψ 39:7; 3 fs. וַתִּצְבָּר־ Zc 9:3, etc.;—heap up, in great quantity: c. acc. corn Gn 41:35, 49 (E), dead frogs Ex 8:10 (J), dust Hb 1:10, silver like dust Zc 9:3; Jb 27:16, cf. (obj. om.) ψ 39:7.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it heaped up (2); he heaped up (1); he heaps up (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 8:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.8.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.8.10/#tree)

וַיִּצְבְּר֥וּ אֹתָ֖ם חֳמָרִ֣ם חֳמָרִ֑ם וַתִּבְאַ֖שׁ הָאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* and people.piled.up them heaps heaps and it.stank the land

*JPS 1917:* And they gathered them together in heaps; and the land stank.

[Job 27:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.27.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.27.16/#tree)

אִם־יִצְבֹּ֣ר כֶּעָפָ֣ר כָּ֑סֶף וְ֝כַחֹ֗מֶר יָכִ֥ין מַלְבּֽוּשׁ׃

*Word for word:* if he.will.heap.up like (the) dust silver and like (the) clay he.will.prepare clothing

*JPS 1917:* Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6651.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6651/): 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).