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# צִיצִת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6734

**tassel** — 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

tassel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6734/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צִיצִת: n.f. tassel, lock [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6734/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. tassel, lock (√ dub.; NH id., so 𝔗 צִיצִיתָא, Syriac ܨܽܘܨܺܝܬܳܐ; cf. Arabic نَاصِيَةٌ hair on forehead);—צ׳ abs. Nu 15:38, 39 tassel on flowing ends (כַּנְפֵי) of garments, cstr. צ׳ הַכָּנָף v 38 (v. KennedyHast. DB ii. 69, fringes); צ׳ רֹאשִׁי Ez 8:3 lock of hair on forehead.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 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, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Numbers 15:38](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.15.38/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.15.38/#tree)

דַּבֵּ֞ר אֶל־בְּנֵ֤י יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ אֲלֵהֶ֔ם וְעָשׂ֨וּ לָהֶ֥ם צִיצִ֛ת עַל־כַּנְפֵ֥י בִגְדֵיהֶ֖ם לְדֹרֹתָ֑ם וְנָֽתְנ֛וּ עַל־צִיצִ֥ת הַכָּנָ֖ף פְּתִ֥יל תְּכֵֽלֶת׃

*Word for word:* speak to the.people of.Israel and you.will.say to them and they.will.make for themselves tassel\[s\] on the.corners their.clothes their to generations their and they.will.put on the.tassel\[s\] of the.corner a.cord of.violet.stuff

*JPS 1917:* 'Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them throughout their generations fringes in the corners of their garments, and that they put with the fringe of each corner a thread of blue.

[Numbers 15:39](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.15.39/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.15.39/#tree)

וְהָיָ֣ה לָכֶם֮ לְצִיצִת֒ וּרְאִיתֶ֣ם אֹת֗וֹ וּזְכַרְתֶּם֙ אֶת־כָּל־מִצְוֺ֣ת יְהוָ֔ה וַעֲשִׂיתֶ֖ם אֹתָ֑ם וְלֹֽא־תָתֻ֜רוּ אַחֲרֵ֤י לְבַבְכֶם֙ וְאַחֲרֵ֣י עֵֽינֵיכֶ֔ם אֲשֶׁר־אַתֶּ֥ם זֹנִ֖ים אַחֲרֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.become for you (into) tassel\[s\] and you.will.see it and you.will.remember (et) all the.commandments of.Yahweh and you.will.observe them and not you.will.go.about after heart your.own and after eyes your.own which you \[are\].acting.as.prostitutes after them

*JPS 1917:* And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye go not about after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go astray;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6734.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6734/): 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).