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# צִיבָא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6717

**Ziba** — used 16 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

Ziba [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6717/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צִיבָא: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6717/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** and (2 S 16:4) צִבָא16 n.pr.m. Σ(ε)ιβα: servant of Saul’s house, 2 S 9:2(×2) + 14 times 9, 16, 19.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: Ziba (13); \[was\] Ziba (1); of Ziba (1).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 9:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.9.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.9.12/#tree)

וְלִמְפִיבֹ֥שֶׁת בֵּן־קָטָ֖ן וּשְׁמ֣וֹ מִיכָ֑א וְכֹל֙ מוֹשַׁ֣ב בֵּית־צִיבָ֔א עֲבָדִ֖ים לִמְפִיבֹֽשֶׁת׃

*Word for word:* and \[belonged to\].Mephibosheth a.son young and name his \[was\].Mica and every (the).resident of.the.house of.Ziba \[were\].servants of Mephibosheth

*JPS 1917:* Now Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Mica. And all that dwelt in the house of Ziba were servants unto Mephibosheth.

[2 Samuel 19:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.19.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.19.30/#tree)

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר לוֹ֙ הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ לָ֛מָּה תְּדַבֵּ֥ר ע֖וֹד דְּבָרֶ֑יךָ אָמַ֕רְתִּי אַתָּ֣ה וְצִיבָ֔א תַּחְלְק֖וּ אֶת־הַשָּׂדֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.said to him the king why? are.you.speaking still words your I.say you and Ziba you.will.divide (et) the field

*JPS 1917:* And the king said unto him: 'Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? I say: Thou and Ziba divide the land.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6717.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6717/): 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).