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# צְדִיָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6660

**lying-in-wait** — used 2 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

lying-in-wait [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6660/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צְדִיָּה: n.f. lying-in-wait [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6660/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. lying-in-wait;—(ב)צ׳ Nu 35:20, 22 i.e. with malicious intent (P).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: lying in wait (2).

## In the verses

[Numbers 35:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.35.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.35.20/#tree)

וְאִם־בְּשִׂנְאָ֖ה יֶהְדָּפֶ֑נּוּ אֽוֹ־הִשְׁלִ֥יךְ עָלָ֛יו בִּצְדִיָּ֖ה וַיָּמֹֽת׃

*Word for word:* and if in hatred he will.push.him or he.threw on him with lying.in.wait and he.died

*JPS 1917:* And if he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him any thing, lying in wait, so that he died;

[Numbers 35:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.35.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.35.22/#tree)

וְאִם־בְּפֶ֥תַע בְּלֹא־אֵיבָ֖ה הֲדָפ֑וֹ אוֹ־הִשְׁלִ֥יךְ עָלָ֛יו כָּל־כְּלִ֖י בְּלֹ֥א צְדִיָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and if with suddenness with not enmity he pushed.him or he.threw on him any weapon with not lying.in.wait

*JPS 1917:* But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled upon him any thing without lying in wait,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6660.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6660/): 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).