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# צִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6716

**ship** — 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

ship [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6716/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צִי: n.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6716/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Is 33:21 ship (loan-word from Egypt. t’aī, according to Bondi 66, cf. ErmanZMG xlvi (1892), 123 DHMVOJ viii. 7, 165);—abs. צִי אַדִּיר Is 33:21 a majestic ship; pl. צִים Nu 24:24 (JE), Ez 30:9 (בַּצּ׳; but 𝔊 σπεύδοντες, cf. 𝔖, whence Co Berthol אָצִים).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 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: ships (3); a ship (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 24:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.24.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.24.24/#tree)

וְצִים֙ מִיַּ֣ד כִּתִּ֔ים וְעִנּ֥וּ אַשּׁ֖וּר וְעִנּוּ־עֵ֑בֶר וְגַם־ה֖וּא עֲדֵ֥י אֹבֵֽד׃

*Word for word:* and ships \[will be\].from.the.side of.Kittim and they.will.afflict Asshur and they.will.afflict Eber and also he \[will.be\].to destruction

*JPS 1917:* But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim, and they shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall come to destruction.

[Isaiah 33:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.33.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.33.21/#tree)

כִּ֣י אִם־שָׁ֞ם אַדִּ֤יר יְהוָה֙ לָ֔נוּ מְקוֹם־נְהָרִ֥ים יְאֹרִ֖ים רַחֲבֵ֣י יָדָ֑יִם בַּל־תֵּ֤לֶךְ בּוֹ֙ אֳנִי־שַׁ֔יִט וְצִ֥י אַדִּ֖יר לֹ֥א יַעַבְרֶֽנּוּ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) (if) there \[will.be\].majestic Yahweh for us a.place of.rivers canals broad of.both.sides not it.will.go on it ship\[s\] of.rowing and a.ship majestic not it will.pass.along.it

*JPS 1917:* But there the LORD will be with us in majesty, in a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6716.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6716/): 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).