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# צִיחָא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6727

**Ziha** — used 3 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

Ziha [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6727/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צִיחָא: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6727/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. an overseer of Nethinim Ne 11:21, who are called בְּנֵי צִיחָא Ezr 2:43 = בְּנֵי צִחָא Ne 7:46; Σηα, Σιααυ, Σιαλ, Σουλαι, etc.

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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Ziha (2); Ziha (1).

## In the verses

[Ezra 2:43](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.43/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.43/#tree)

הַנְּתִינִ֑ים בְּנֵי־צִיחָ֥א בְנֵי־חֲשׂוּפָ֖א בְּנֵ֥י טַבָּעֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* the.temple servants the.descendants of.Ziha the.descendants of.Hasupha the.descendants of.Tabbaoth

*JPS 1917:* The Nethinim: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth;

[Nehemiah 7:46](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.46/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.46/#tree)

הַנְּתִינִ֑ים בְּנֵי־צִחָ֥א בְנֵי־חֲשֻׂפָ֖א בְּנֵ֥י טַבָּעֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* the.temple servants the.descendants of.Ziha the.descendants of.Hasupha the.descendants of.Tabbaoth

*JPS 1917:* The Nethinim: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6727.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6727/): 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).