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# צַחֲנָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6709

**stench** — 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

stench [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6709/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צַחֲנָה: n.f. stench [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6709/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. stench;—sf. צַחֲנָתוֹ Jo 2:20 (‖ בָּאְשׁוֹ).—cf. עפר צחנה Ecclus 11:12.

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Joel 2:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.2.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.2.20/#tree)

וְֽאֶת־הַצְּפוֹנִ֞י אַרְחִ֣יק מֵעֲלֵיכֶ֗ם וְהִדַּחְתִּיו֮ אֶל־אֶ֣רֶץ צִיָּ֣ה וּשְׁמָמָה֒ אֶת־פָּנָ֗יו אֶל־הַיָּם֙ הַקַּדְמֹנִ֔י וְסֹפ֖וֹ אֶל־הַיָּ֣ם הָאַֽחֲר֑וֹן וְעָלָ֣ה בָאְשׁ֗וֹ וְתַ֙עַל֙ צַחֲנָת֔וֹ כִּ֥י הִגְדִּ֖יל לַעֲשֽׂוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the northerner\[s\] I.will.remove.far.away from with you and I will.drive.it.away into a.land of.dryness and desolation (et) face its into the sea (the) eastern and end its into the sea (the) western and it.will.go.up stench its and it.will.go.up smell its.foul (dm) he.has.made.great to do

*JPS 1917:* But I will remove far off from you the northern one, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the eastern sea, and his hinder part toward the western sea; that his foulness may come up, and his ill savour may come up, because he hath done great things.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6709.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6709/): 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).