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# צִלִצָל

Biblical Hebrew

**spear** — 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

spear [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/lemma_3a_5e6_5b4_5dc_5b4_5e6_5b8_5dc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צִלְצָל²: spear [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/lemma_3a_5e6_5b4_5dc_5b4_5e6_5b8_5dc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] spear (from whizzing);—cstr. צִלְצַל דָּגִים Jb 40:31 fish-spear, harpoon.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Job 40:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.31/#tree)

הַֽתְמַלֵּ֣א בְשֻׂכּ֣וֹת עוֹר֑וֹ וּבְצִלְצַ֖ל דָּגִ֣ים רֹאשֽׁוֹ׃

*Word for word:* will you.fill? with harpoons hide its and with a.spear of.fish(es) head its

*JPS 1917:* Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish-spears?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e6_5b4_5dc_5b4_5e6_5b8_5dc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/lemma_3a_5e6_5b4_5dc_5b4_5e6_5b8_5dc/): 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).