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# צָמַק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6784

**dry up** — 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

dry up [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6784/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צָמַק: vb. dry up, shrivel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6784/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. dry up, shrivel (NH id.; 𝔗J Nu 6:3 צְמִיקִין, for יְבֵשִׁיּם);— Pt. act. pl. שָׁדַיִם צֹמְקִים Ho 9:14 shrivelling breasts (of women; ‖ רֶחֶם מַשְׁכִּיל).

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[which\] dry up (1).

## In the verses

[Hosea 9:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.9.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.9.14/#tree)

תֵּן־לָהֶ֥ם יְהוָ֖ה מַה־תִּתֵּ֑ן תֵּן־לָהֶם֙ רֶ֣חֶם מַשְׁכִּ֔יל וְשָׁדַ֖יִם צֹמְקִֽים׃

*Word for word:* give to them O.Yahweh what? will.you.give give to them a.womb \[which\].miscarries and breasts \[which\].dry.up

*JPS 1917:* Give them, O LORD, whatsoever Thou wilt give; give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6784.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6784/): 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).