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# צְחִיחַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6706

**shining** — used 5 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

shining [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6706/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צָחִיחַ: shining, glaring, surface [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6706/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] shining, glaring, surface cstr. צְחִיחַ סֶלַע i.e. a smooth, bare, rock Ez 24:7, 8; 26:4, 14; pl. בַּצְּחִיחִים Ne 4:7 Qr (Kt בַּצְּחִחִיִים), in glaring, bare places (?).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 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 (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: bareness (4); places (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 24:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.24.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.24.8/#tree)

לְהַעֲל֤וֹת חֵמָה֙ לִנְקֹ֣ם נָקָ֔ם נָתַ֥תִּי אֶת־דָּמָ֖הּ עַל־צְחִ֣יחַ סָ֑לַע לְבִלְתִּ֖י הִכָּסֽוֹת׃פ

*Word for word:* to stir.up rage to avenge vengeance I.put (et) blood its on bareness of.rock to not to.be.covered

*JPS 1917:* that it might cause fury to come up, that vengeance might be taken, I have set her blood upon the bare rock, that it should not be covered.

[Ezekiel 26:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.26.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.26.14/#tree)

וּנְתַתִּ֞יךְ לִצְחִ֣יחַ סֶ֗לַע מִשְׁטַ֤ח חֲרָמִים֙ תִּֽהְיֶ֔ה לֹ֥א תִבָּנֶ֖ה ע֑וֹד כִּ֣י אֲנִ֤י יְהוָה֙ דִּבַּ֔רְתִּי נְאֻ֖ם אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and I will.make.you into bareness of.rock a.spreading.place of.nets you.will.be not you.will.be.built again (dm) I Yahweh I.have.spoken the.utterance Lord of.\[the\] Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* And I will make thee a bare rock; thou shalt be a place for the spreading of nets, thou shalt be built no more; for I the LORD have spoken, saith the Lord GOD.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6706.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6706/): 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).