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# צָהַל

Biblical Hebrew

**make shining** — used 1 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

make shining [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/lemma_3a_5e6_5b8_5d4_5b7_5dc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צָהַל²: vb. make shining [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/lemma_3a_5e6_5b8_5d4_5b7_5dc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. make shining (NH id. (rare); ‖ form of צהר, denom. from צהרים);—Inf. cstr. לְהַצְהִיל פָּנִים מִשָּׁ֑מֶן ψ 104:15.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: make shine (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 104:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.104.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.104.15/#tree)

וְיַ֤יִן ׀ יְשַׂמַּ֬ח לְֽבַב־אֱנ֗וֹשׁ לְהַצְהִ֣יל פָּנִ֣ים מִשָּׁ֑מֶן וְ֝לֶ֗חֶם לְֽבַב־אֱנ֥וֹשׁ יִסְעָֽד׃

*Word for word:* and wine \[which\].it.makes.glad \[the\].heart of.humankind to make.shine faces from oil and food \[which.the\].heart of.humankind it.sustains

*JPS 1917:* And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, making the face brighter than oil, and bread that stayeth man's heart.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e6_5b8_5d4_5b7_5dc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/lemma_3a_5e6_5b8_5d4_5b7_5dc/): 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).