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# צִי

Biblical Hebrew

**a wild beast** — used 6 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

a wild beast [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/lemma_3a_5e6_5b4_5d9/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צִי²: n.m. desert-dweller or crier, yelper [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/lemma_3a_5e6_5b4_5d9/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Je 50:39 a wild beast, proposes either desert-dweller (denom. from צִיָּה, so most), or crier, yelper (√\* צוה = ضوى \[yelp, Dozy\], BaNB 188, cf. Ew§ 146 g, note);—in any case a specif. animal, but not certainly identif.; BoHieroz. i, lib. 3, § 14, cp. Arabic ضَيْوَنٌ wild cat;—pl. צִיִּים Is 13:21 (f. אִיִּים v 22), 23:13; 34:14 (+ אִיִּים), Je 50:39 (id.; all betokening desolation); לְעַם לְצ׳ ψ 74:14 (read לְעַם צ׳ Hup-Now Bae); appar. of people 72:9, but prob. corrupt, Ol conj. צָרִים (‖ אֹיְבָיו), and so most moderns.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: desert-dwellers (6).

## In the verses

[Psalms 72:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.72.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.72.9/#tree)

לְ֭פָנָיו יִכְרְע֣וּ צִיִּ֑ים וְ֝אֹיְבָ֗יו עָפָ֥ר יְלַחֵֽכוּ׃

*Word for word:* before him they.will.bow.down desert-dwellers and enemies his dust they.will.lick.up

*JPS 1917:* Let them that dwell in the wilderness bow before him; and his enemies lick the dust.

[Psalms 74:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.74.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.74.14/#tree)

אַתָּ֣ה רִ֭צַּצְתָּ רָאשֵׁ֣י לִוְיָתָ֑ן תִּתְּנֶ֥נּוּ מַ֝אֲכָ֗ל לְעָ֣ם לְצִיִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* you you.crushed the.heads of.Leviathan you gave.it food to a.people to desert-dwellers

*JPS 1917:* Thou didst crush the heads of leviathan, Thou gavest him to be food to the folk inhabiting the wilderness.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e6_5b4_5d9.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/lemma_3a_5e6_5b4_5d9/): 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).