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# צִן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6790

**Zin** — used 10 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

Zin [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6790/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צִן: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6790/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Σ(ε)ιν; name of wilderness S. of Canaan, where lay Kadesh Barnea, c. ה loc. צִ֫נָה Nu 34:4 (where LagBN 47 חצן), Jos 15:3 (van d. H. צִ֫נָּה in Jos); elsewhere מִדְבַּר־צִן Nu 13:21; 20:1; 27:14(×2); 33:36; 34:3 Dt 32:51; Jos 15:1 (all P).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Zin (8); to (2).

## In the verses

[Numbers 13:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.13.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.13.21/#tree)

וַֽיַּעֲל֖וּ וַיָּתֻ֣רוּ אֶת־הָאָ֑רֶץ מִמִּדְבַּר־צִ֥ן עַד־רְחֹ֖ב לְבֹ֥א חֲמָֽת׃

*Word for word:* and they.went.up and they.spied.out (et) the land from the.wilderness of.Zin to Rehob Lebo Hamath

*JPS 1917:* So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, at the entrance to Hamath.

[Numbers 33:36](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.33.36/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.33.36/#tree)

וַיִּסְע֖וּ מֵעֶצְי֣וֹנ גָּ֑בֶר עֶצְי֣וֹנ גָּ֑בֶר וַיַּחֲנ֥וּ בְמִדְבַּר־צִ֖ן הִ֥וא קָדֵֽשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and they.set.out from Ezion Geber and they.encamped in the.wilderness of.Zin that \[is\].Kadesh

*JPS 1917:* And they journeyed from Ezion-geber, and pitched in the wilderness of Zin — the same is Kadesh.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6790.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6790/): 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).