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# צוּף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6688

**comb** — 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

comb [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6688/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צוּף²: n.m. comb [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6688/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. (honey-)comb (as exuding honey);—only fig.: cstr. צוּף־דְּבַשׁ Pr 16:24; pl. נֹפֶת צוּפִים ψ 19:11 (+ דְּבַשׁ), 𝔊 κηρίον, κηρία, 𝔙 favus.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[are\] a honeycomb (1); of honeycombs (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 16:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.16.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.16.24/#tree)

צוּף־דְּ֭בַשׁ אִמְרֵי־נֹ֑עַם מָת֥וֹק לַ֝נֶּפֶשׁ וּמַרְפֵּ֥א לָעָֽצֶם׃

*Word for word:* \[are\].a.honeycomb of.honey words of.kindness a.sweet.\[thing\] to the soul and healing to the bone\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

[Psalms 19:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.19.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.19.11/#tree)

הַֽנֶּחֱמָדִ֗ים מִ֭זָּהָב וּמִפַּ֣ז רָ֑ב וּמְתוּקִ֥ים מִ֝דְּבַ֗שׁ וְנֹ֣פֶת צוּפִֽים׃

*Word for word:* (the) desirable more than.gold and more than.pure.gold much and sweet more than.honey and.\[the\] honey of.honeycombs

*JPS 1917:* More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6688.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6688/): 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).