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# צַמִּים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6782

**snare** — used 2 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

snare [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6782/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צַמִּים²: n.m. snare, trap [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6782/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. doubtful word, usually snare, trap (from ‖ פַּח Jb 18:9);—וְשָׁאַף צ׳ חֵילָם Jb 5:5 and a snare snappeth at their wealth (so Bu BevJPhil. xxvi, 304 f.; Vrss Di Du and most mod. צְמֵאִים, or צָמֵא, the thirsty, sometimes with change of וְשָׁאַף); 18:9 (‖ פַּח; CheJQ ix (1897), 578 צִירִים pangs, cf. Is 13:8).

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a snare (2).

## In the verses

[Job 18:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.18.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.18.9/#tree)

יֹאחֵ֣ז בְּעָקֵ֣ב פָּ֑ח יַחֲזֵ֖ק עָלָ֣יו צַמִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* it.takes.hold on a.heel a.trap it.takes.hold on him a.snare

*JPS 1917:* A gin shall take him by the heel, and a snare shall lay hold on him.

[Job 5:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.5.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.5.5/#tree)

אֲשֶׁ֤ר קְצִיר֨וֹ ׀ רָ֘עֵ֤ב יֹאכֵ֗ל וְאֶֽל־מִצִּנִּ֥ים יִקָּחֵ֑הוּ וְשָׁאַ֖ף צַמִּ֣ים חֵילָֽם׃

*Word for word:* who harvest his \[the\].hungry he.eats and to from thorns he takes.it and it.pants.for a.snare wealth their

*JPS 1917:* Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the snare gapeth for their substance.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6782.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6782/): 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).