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# צִמָּאוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6774

**thirsty ground** — 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

thirsty ground [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6774/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צִמָּאוֹן: thirsty ground [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6774/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] thirsty ground;—abs. צ׳ Dt 8:15; Is 35:7 ψ 107:33.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: thirsty ground (3).

## In the verses

[Psalms 107:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.107.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.107.33/#tree)

יָשֵׂ֣ם נְהָר֣וֹת לְמִדְבָּ֑ר וּמֹצָ֥אֵי מַ֝֗יִם לְצִמָּאֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* he.made rivers into a.wilderness and springs of.water into thirsty.ground

*JPS 1917:* He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and watersprings into a thirsty ground;

[Isaiah 35:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.35.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.35.7/#tree)

וְהָיָ֤ה הַשָּׁרָב֙ לַאֲגַ֔ם וְצִמָּא֖וֹן לְמַבּ֣וּעֵי מָ֑יִם בִּנְוֵ֤ה תַנִּים֙ רִבְצָ֔הּ חָצִ֖יר לְקָנֶ֥ה וָגֹֽמֶא׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.become the.parched ground (into).a pool and thirsty.ground \[will become\].(into).springs of.water \[will be\].in.a.habitation of.jackals place its.resting herbage \[will become\].(into).reed\[s\] and papyrus

*JPS 1917:* And the parched land shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water; in the habitation of jackals herds shall lie down, it shall be an enclosure for reeds and rushes.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6774.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6774/): 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).