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# צֶלַע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6761

**limping** — 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

limping [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6761/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צֶ֫לַע: limping, stumbling [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6761/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] limping, stumbling;—fig. of calamity, abs. לְצ׳ ψ 38:18 I am ready (נָכוֹן) for stumbling (and falling); sf. בְּצַלְעִי ψ 35:15 at my stumbling; שֹׁמְרֵי צ׳ Je 20:10 watchers of my stumbling; אֵיד נָכוֹן לְצַלְעוֹ Jb 18;12 ruin is ready for his stumbling.—Vid. also צֵלָׄע cstr.

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, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: stumbling (4).

## In the verses

[Job 18:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.18.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.18.12/#tree)

יְהִי־רָעֵ֥ב אֹנ֑וֹ וְ֝אֵ֗יד נָכ֥וֹן לְצַלְעֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* it.is hungry strength his and disaster \[is\].prepared for stumbling his

*JPS 1917:* His trouble shall be ravenous, and calamity shall be ready for his fall.

[Psalms 38:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.38.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.38.18/#tree)

כִּֽי־אֲ֭נִי לְצֶ֣לַע נָכ֑וֹן וּמַכְאוֹבִ֖י נֶגְדִּ֣י תָמִֽיד׃

*Word for word:* (dm) I for stumbling \[am\].prepared and pain my \[is\].before me continually

*JPS 1917:* For I am ready to halt, and my pain is continually before me.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6761.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6761/): 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).