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# צָמַד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6775

**bind** — used 5 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

bind [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6775/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צָמַד: vb. bind, join [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6775/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. bind, join (Arabic ضَمَدَ bind, wind, specif. of girl with two lovers WeGGN 1893, 470; fasten (cattle) to yoke Dozy, مِضْمَد yoke, id.; Assyrian ṣamâdu, bind, harness, so Ethiopic ፀመደ: iii. i be attached, attach oneself, specif. be (religiously) devoted; Aramaic צְמַד, ܨܡܰܕ, bind);— Impf. 3 ms. וַיִּצָּ֫מֶד Nu 25:3; 3 mpl. וַיִּצָּֽמְדוּ ψ 106:28; Pt. pl. נִצְמָדִים Nu 25:5; join, attach, oneself to (ל) Baal Peor, i.e. adopt his worship Nu 25:3, 5 (JE), whence ψ 106:28. Pt. f. מְצֻמֶּ֫דֶת 2 S 20:8 a sword bound upon (עַל) his lions. Impf. 3 fs. תַּצְמִיד מִרְמָה ψ 50:19 thy tongue combineth (fitteth together, frameth) deceit (\> denom. from צֶמֶד Gerber170).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 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: \[was\] fastened (1); have\] joined themselves (1); it frames (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 50:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.50.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.50.19/#tree)

פִּ֭יךָ שָׁלַ֣חְתָּ בְרָעָ֑ה וּ֝לְשׁוֹנְךָ֗ תַּצְמִ֥יד מִרְמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* mouth your you.let.loose in evil and tongue your it.frames deceit

*JPS 1917:* Thou hast let loose thy mouth for evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

[Psalms 106:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.106.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.106.28/#tree)

וַ֭יִּצָּ֣מְדוּ לְבַ֣עַל פְּע֑וֹר בַ֣עַל פְּע֑וֹר וַ֝יֹּאכְל֗וּ זִבְחֵ֥י מֵתִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and they.joined.themselves to Baal Peor and they.ate sacrifices of.dead.\[ones\]

*JPS 1917:* They joined themselves also unto Baal of Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6775.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6775/): 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).