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# צָלַל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6749

**sink** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

sink [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6749/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צָלַל²: vb. sink, be submerged [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6749/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. sink, be submerged (NH id.; Assyrian ṣalâlu, sink down, sink to rest, ii. launch (HptProl. Assyr. Gr. liii; BAS i. 127; Ball, Gen. 53); Ethiopic ጸለለ float, cf. NesMar. x: Aramaic צְלַל, ܨܰܠ, are filter, clarify);— Pf. 3 pl. צָֽלְלוּ כַּעוֹפֶרֶת בְּמַיִם Ex 15:10.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Exodus 15:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.15.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.15.10/#tree)

נָשַׁ֥פְתָּ בְרוּחֲךָ֖ כִּסָּ֣מוֹ יָ֑ם צָֽלֲלוּ֙ כַּֽעוֹפֶ֔רֶת בְּמַ֖יִם אַדִּירִֽים׃

*Word for word:* you.blew with breath your it covered.them \[the\].sea they.sank like (the) lead in.\[the\] waters mighty

*JPS 1917:* Thou didst blow with Thy wind, the sea covered them; they sank as lead in the mighty waters.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6749.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6749/): 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).