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# צֹהַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6672

**roof** — 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

roof [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6672/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צֹ֫הַר²: n.f. roof [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6672/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. prob. roof (cf.Arabic Assyrian TelAm. back; \> Thes Di al. light, window);—צ׳ תַּעֲשֶׂה לַתֵּבָה Gn 6:16.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a roof (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 6:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.6.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.6.16/#tree)

צֹ֣הַר ׀ תַּֽעֲשֶׂ֣ה לַתֵּבָ֗ה וְאֶל־אַמָּה֙ תְּכַלֶ֣נָּהמִלְמַ֔עְלָה וּפֶ֥תַח הַתֵּבָ֖ה בְּצִדָּ֣הּ תָּשִׂ֑ים תַּחְתִּיִּ֛ם שְׁנִיִּ֥ם וּשְׁלִשִׁ֖ים תַּֽעֲשֶֽׂהָ׃

*Word for word:* a.roof you.will.make for the ark and to a.cubit you will.finish.it from to above and the.entrance of the.ark in side its you.will.put lower.\[decks\] second.\[decks\] and third.\[decks\] you will.make.it

*JPS 1917:* A light shalt thou make to the ark, and to a cubit shalt thou finish it upward; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6672.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6672/): 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).