[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/%D7%A6%D7%9E%D7%93/)

[dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [Biblical Hebrew](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/) / [צ](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/tsadi/)‎ / צֶמֶד‎

# צֶמֶד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6776

**couple** — used 15 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

couple [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6776/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צֶ֫מֶד: n.m. couple, pair [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6776/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. 1 K 19:19 couple, pair;—צ׳ cstr. Ju 19:3 +; sf. צִמְדּוֹ Je 51:23; pl. צְמָדִים 1 K 19:19; 2 K 9:25 (but v. infr.); cstr. צִמְדֵּי Is 5:10 (Ges§ 93 m);— couple, pair, usually of animals, צ׳ חֲמֹרִים Ju 19:3, 10; 2 S 16:1; צ׳ (הַ)בָּקָר span of oxen 1 S 11:7; 1 K 19:21, pl. of more than one span v 19 (ploughing), Jb 1:3; 42:12; צֶמֶד פְּרָדִים 2 K 5:17; צ׳ פָּרָשִׁים Is 21:7, 9 a pair of horsemen; pl. also of one pair of riders 2 K 9:25 (but read prob. צֶמֶד, so Kit); צ׳ alone = span (of oxen) Je 51:23. a measure of land (only square measure in OT) like acre; orig. appar. what a span can plough (in a day; v. NowArch. i. 202 BenzArch. 208; cf. mod. faddân, = what can be ploughed in a season SchumacherZPV xii (1889), 163 f., Across Jordan 22, or in a day BergheimPEQ, 1894, 192, Ency. Bib.ACRE), צ׳ שָׂדֶה 1 S 14:14 (on text v. Dr HPS); צִמְדֵּי־כֶרֶם Is 5:10.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 of its verses cited, 1 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: a pair (6); pair\[s\] (2); pairs (2).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 5:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.5.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.5.10/#tree)

כִּ֗י עֲשֶׂ֙רֶת֙ צִמְדֵּי־כֶ֔רֶם יַעֲשׂ֖וּ בַּ֣ת אֶחָ֑ת וְזֶ֥רַע חֹ֖מֶר יַעֲשֶׂ֥ה אֵיפָֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* (dm) ten acres of.vineyard they.will.produce a.bath one and seed of.a.homer it.will.produce an.ephah

*JPS 1917:* For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah.

[Isaiah 21:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.21.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.21.7/#tree)

וְרָ֣אָה רֶ֗כֶב צֶ֚מֶד פָּֽרָשִׁ֔ים רֶ֥כֶב חֲמ֖וֹר רֶ֣כֶב גָּמָ֑ל וְהִקְשִׁ֥יב קֶ֖שֶׁב רַב־קָֽשֶׁב׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.see a.rider a.pair of.horses a.rider of.a.donkey a.rider of.a.camel and he.will.pay.attention attentiveness greatness of.attentiveness

*JPS 1917:* And when he seeth a troop, horsemen by pairs, a troop of asses, a troop of camels, he shall hearken diligently with much heed.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6776.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6776/): 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).