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# צְמָרִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6786

**Tsemarite** — 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

Tsemarite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6786/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צְמָרִי: adj. gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6786/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. gent. c. art. as subst. coll. (people of the city called Ṣimirra by Assyrian, COTGn DlPa 281 f., Egyptian Ḏa-(m)-ma-rḁ WMMAs. u. Eur. 187; TelAm. Ṣumur according to ZimZPV xiii (1890), 145 JastrJBL xii (1893), 63; Gk. τὰ Σίμυρα, etc., e.g. Straboxvi, 2, 12, \> WklMVG 1896, 203 f., cf. TelAm. 40 thinks צ׳, Σίμυρα, = Assyrian Zimarra, distinct from Ṣimirra-Ṣumur);—הַצּ׳ Gn 10:18 = 1 Ch 1:16, 𝔊 τὸν Σαμαραῖον; Ez 27:11 Co reads וּצְמָרִים for וְגַמָּדִים (q.v.); Toy Krae retain וְג׳;—cf. mod. Ṣumra, N. of Tripoli and S. of Ruad (Arvad), v. PietschmPhön. 39 BädPal. 3 (1898), 407.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Zemarite\[s\] (2).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 1:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.16/#tree)

וְאֶת־הָאַרְוָדִ֥י וְאֶת־הַצְּמָרִ֖י וְאֶת־הַֽחֲמָתִֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* and (et) the Arvadite\[s\] and (et) the Zemarite\[s\] and (et) the Hamathite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.

[Genesis 10:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.18/#tree)

וְאֶת־הָֽאַרְוָדִ֥י וְאֶת־הַצְּמָרִ֖י וְאֶת־הַֽחֲמָתִ֑י וְאַחַ֣ר נָפֹ֔צוּ מִשְׁפְּח֖וֹת הַֽכְּנַעֲנִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the Arvadite\[s\] and (et) the Zemarite\[s\] and (et) the Hamathite\[s\] and after they.were.scattered the.clans of the.Canaanite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite; and afterward were the families of the Canaanite spread abroad.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6786/): 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).