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# צָלִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6748

**roasted** — 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

roasted [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6748/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צָלִי: adj. n.m. roasted, roast [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6748/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. et n.m. roasted, roast;—cstr. (as adj.) צְלִי־אֵשׁ (P) of flesh (בָּשָׂר) Ex 12:8, 9 (opp. מְבֻשָּׁל בַּמָּ֑יִם); abs. as subst. cogn. Is 44:16 v. \[צָלָה\].

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 (5 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: roasted (2); roasted meat (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 12:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.12.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.12.8/#tree)

וְאָכְל֥וּ אֶת־הַבָּשָׂ֖ר בַּלַּ֣יְלָה הַזֶּ֑ה צְלִי־אֵ֣שׁ וּמַצּ֔וֹת עַל־מְרֹרִ֖ים יֹאכְלֻֽהוּ׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.eat (et) the meat in the night (the) this roasted of.fire and unleavened.bread(s) with bitter.herbs they will.eat.it

*JPS 1917:* And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

[Isaiah 44:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.44.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.44.16/#tree)

חֶצְיוֹ֙ שָׂרַ֣ף בְּמוֹ־אֵ֔שׁ עַל־חֶצְיוֹ֙ בָּשָׂ֣ר יֹאכֵ֔ל יִצְלֶ֥ה צָלִ֖י וְיִשְׂבָּ֑ע אַף־יָחֹם֙ וְיֹאמַ֣ר הֶאָ֔ח חַמּוֹתִ֖י רָאִ֥יתִי אֽוּר׃

*Word for word:* of.it half he.burns in a.fire over of.it half meat he.eats he.roasts roasted.meat and he.is.satisfied also he.is.warm and he.says aha! I.am.warm I.see a.fire

*JPS 1917:* He burneth the half thereof in the fire; with the half thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied; yea, he warmeth himself, and saith: 'Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire';

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6748.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6748/): 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).