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# צָהֹב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6669

**gleaming** — used 3 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

gleaming [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6669/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צָהֹב: adj. gleaming, yellow [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6669/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. gleaming, yellow (of hair);—שֵׂעָר צ׳ Lv 13:30, 32, 36 (opp. שׂ׳ שָׁחֹר v 31, 37).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 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, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: yellow (3).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 13:36](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.36/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.36/#tree)

וְרָאָ֙הוּ֙ הַכֹּהֵ֔ן וְהִנֵּ֛ה פָּשָׂ֥ה הַנֶּ֖תֶק בָּע֑וֹר לֹֽא־יְבַקֵּ֧ר הַכֹּהֵ֛ן לַשֵּׂעָ֥ר הַצָּהֹ֖ב טָמֵ֥א הֽוּא׃

*Word for word:* and he will.see.it the priest and there! it.has.spread the scall in the skin not he.will.seek the priest for the hair (the) yellow \[is\].unclean he

*JPS 1917:* then the priest shall look on him; and, behold, if the scall be spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for the yellow hair: he is unclean.

[Leviticus 13:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.32/#tree)

וְרָאָ֨ה הַכֹּהֵ֣ן אֶת־הַנֶּגַע֮ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִי֒ וְהִנֵּה֙ לֹא־פָשָׂ֣ה הַנֶּ֔תֶק וְלֹא־הָ֥יָה ב֖וֹ שֵׂעָ֣ר צָהֹ֑ב וּמַרְאֵ֣ה הַנֶּ֔תֶק אֵ֥ין עָמֹ֖ק מִן־הָעֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.see the priest (et) the plague on the day (the) seventh and there! not it.has.spread the scall and not it.was in it hair yellow and the.appearance of the.scall not \[is\].deep more.than the skin

*JPS 1917:* And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague; and, behold, if the scall be not spread, and there be in it no yellow hair, and the appearance of the scall be not deeper than the skin,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6669.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6669/): 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).