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# צַמֶּרֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6788

**top** — 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

top [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6788/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צַמֶּ֫רֶת: n.f. tree-top [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6788/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. tree-top (poss. from woolly, feathery, appearance);—צ׳ cstr., of cedar (in fig.) Ez 17:3, 22, so sf. צַמַּרְתּוֹ 31:3, 10; of tall trees in gen., צַמַּרְתָּם v 14.

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 (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: treetop (3); the treetop (2).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 31:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.31.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.31.3/#tree)

הִנֵּ֨ה אַשּׁ֜וּר אֶ֣רֶז בַּלְּבָנ֗וֹן יְפֵ֥ה עָנָ֛ף וְחֹ֥רֶשׁ מֵצַ֖ל וּגְבַ֣הּ קוֹמָ֑ה וּבֵ֣ין עֲבֹתִ֔ים הָיְתָ֖ה צַמַּרְתּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* there! Assyria \[was\].a.cedar in (the) Lebanon beautiful of.branch\[es\] and a.forest \[which\].gave.shade and tall of.height and between branches it.was treetop its

*JPS 1917:* Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of a high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs.

[Ezekiel 31:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.31.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.31.10/#tree)

לָכֵ֗ן כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה יַ֕עַן אֲשֶׁ֥ר גָּבַ֖הְתָּ בְּקוֹמָ֑ה וַיִּתֵּ֤ן צַמַּרְתּוֹ֙ אֶל־בֵּ֣ין עֲבוֹתִ֔ים וְרָ֥ם לְבָב֖וֹ בְּגָבְהֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* therefore thus he.says Lord \[the\] Yahweh because that you.were.tall in height and it.set treetop its to between branches and it.was.lifted.up heart its in height its

*JPS 1917:* Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Because thou art exalted in stature, and he hath set his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6788/): 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).