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# צַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6703

**dazzling** — used 4 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

dazzling [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6703/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צַח²: adj. dazzling, glowing, clear [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6703/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. dazzling, glowing, clear;—חֹם צַת Is 18:4 glowing heat; רוּחַ צַח Je 4:11 glowing wind; דּוֹדִי צַח וְאָדוֹם Ct 5:10 my beloved is dazzling (white) and ruddy (cf. La 4:7); fpl. לְדַבֵּר צַחוֹת Is 32:4 to speak clear (words), clearly.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: \[is\] dazzling (1); clear \[words\] (1); scorching (1).

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 5:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.5.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.5.10/#tree)

דּוֹדִ֥י צַח֙ וְאָד֔וֹם דָּג֖וּל מֵרְבָבָֽה׃

*Word for word:* lover my \[is\].dazzling and ruddy \[he.is\].conspicuous more than.ten.thousand

*JPS 1917:* 'My beloved is white and ruddy, pre-eminent above ten thousand.

[Isaiah 32:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.32.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.32.4/#tree)

וּלְבַ֥ב נִמְהָרִ֖ים יָבִ֣ין לָדָ֑עַת וּלְשׁ֣וֹן עִלְּגִ֔ים תְּמַהֵ֖ר לְדַבֵּ֥ר צָחֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and.\[the\] heart of.hasty.\[people\] it.will.understand to know and.\[the\] tongue of.stammerers it.will.hasten to speak clear.\[words\]

*JPS 1917:* The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6703.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6703/): 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).