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# צָלַע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6760

**limp** — 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

limp [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6760/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צָלַע: vb. limp [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6760/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. limp (Arabic ظَلَعَ, Aramaic טלע Aph.);— Pt. צֹלֵעַ עַל־יְרֵכוֹ Gn 32:32 (J; of Jacob); f. הַצֹּלֵעָה as subst., of personif. Judah as flock \[צֹאן\] Mi 4:6, 7; Zp 3:19.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Genesis 32:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.32.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.32.32/#tree)

וַיִּֽזְרַֽח־ל֣וֹ הַשֶּׁ֔מֶשׁ כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר עָבַ֖ר אֶת־פְּנוּאֵ֑ל וְה֥וּא צֹלֵ֖עַ עַל־יְרֵכֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and it.rose to him the sun when he.passed.over (et) Penuel and he \[was\].limping on thigh his

*JPS 1917:* And the sun rose upon him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped upon his thigh.

[Micah 4:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.4.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.4.6/#tree)

בַּיּ֨וֹם הַה֜וּא נְאֻם־יְהוָ֗ה אֹֽסְפָה֙ הַצֹּ֣לֵעָ֔ה וְהַנִּדָּחָ֖ה אֲקַבֵּ֑צָה וַאֲשֶׁ֖ר הֲרֵעֹֽתִי׃

*Word for word:* in the day (the) that the.utterance of.Yahweh I.will.gather the.\[one who.is\].lame and the.\[one who.is\].outcast I.will.assemble and.\[those\] whom I.have.done.harm.to

*JPS 1917:* In that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven away, and her that I have afflicted;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6760.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6760/): 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).