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# צָמַת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6789

**put an end to** — 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

put an end to [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6789/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צָמַת: vb. put an end to, exterminate Qal Pi. Pi. Piʿlēl [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6789/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. put an end to, exterminate, poet. and (in Qal, Pi.) hyperb. (proposes compress, NH id., press together; Arabic صَمَتَ is be silent, ii, iv. make speechless, silence; Syriac ܨܡܰܬ be silent (in Lexx));— Pf. 3 pl. צָֽמְתוּ … חַיָּ֑י La 3:53 they have put an end to my life (Bu conj. Pi.). be ended, annihilated; Pf. 1 s. נִצְמַתִּי מִפְּנֵי־חשֶׁךְ Jb 23:17 I am \[not\] annihilated because of (the) darkness; 3 pl. נִצְמָ֑תוּ Jb 6:17 (of dried-up brooks). Pf. 3 fs. sf. צִמְּחַתְנִי ψ 119:139 קִנְאָתִי hath put an end to me (it is so intense). Piʿlēl Pf. 3 pl. sf. צִמְּתֻתוּנִי (but read צִמְּתוּנִי Ges§ 55 d, or צִמְּתָ֑תְנִי Hi \[Ges§ 145 k\]; cf. Bae) ψ 88:17 thine alarms have annihilated me. Pf. 2 ms. הִצְמַתָּה ψ 73:27; Impf. 3 ms. sf. יַצְמִיתֵם ψ 94:23(×2); 2 ms. תַּצְמִית ψ 143:12, etc.; Imv. ms. sf. הַצְמִיתֵם ψ 54:7; Pt. pl. sf. מַצְמִיתַי ψ 69:5;—exterminate, annihilate, c. acc. pers., subj. Psalmist ψ 18:41 = 2 S 22:41 (read as in ψ), 101:5, 8; his foes ψ 69:5; י׳ 54:7; 73:27; 94:23(×2); 143:12.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: I (2); I will destroy (2); he (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 88:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.88.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.88.17/#tree)

עָ֭לַי עָבְר֣וּ חֲרוֹנֶ֑יךָ בִּ֝עוּתֶ֗יךָ צִמְּתוּתֻֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* over me they.have.passed anger(s) your terrors your they have.destroyed.me

*JPS 1917:* Thy fierce wrath is gone over me; Thy terrors have cut me off.

[Psalms 73:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.73.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.73.27/#tree)

כִּֽי־הִנֵּ֣ה רְחֵקֶ֣יךָ יֹאבֵ֑דוּ הִ֝צְמַ֗תָּה כָּל־זוֹנֶ֥ה מִמֶּֽךָּ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) there! \[people\].far from.you they.will.perish you.destroy every \[one.who\].acts.as.a.prostitute from you

*JPS 1917:* For, lo, they that go far from Thee shall perish; Thou dost destroy all them that go astray from Thee.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6789.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6789/): 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).