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# צָנַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6795

**descend** — used 3 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

descend [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6795/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צָנַח: vb. descend [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6795/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. descend (meaning inferred from context);— Impf. 3 fs. וַתִּצְנַח מֵעַל הַחֲמוֹר Ju 1:14 = Jos 15:18 and she descended (alighted) from the ass; וַתּ׳ בָּאָרֶץ Ju 4:21 and it (the tentpeg) went down into the ground.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 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: she went down (2); it went down (1).

## In the verses

[Joshua 15:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.18/#tree)

וַיְהִ֣י בְּבוֹאָ֗הּ וַתְּסִיתֵ֙הוּ֙ לִשְׁא֤וֹל מֵֽאֵת־אָבִ֙יהָ֙ שָׂדֶ֔ה וַתִּצְנַ֖ח מֵעַ֣ל הַחֲמ֑וֹר וַיֹּֽאמֶר־לָ֥הּ כָּלֵ֖ב מַה־לָּֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* and it.was when came she and she incited.him to ask from with father her a.field and she.went.down from on the donkey and he.said to her Caleb what? \[is\].to you

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass, when she came unto him, that she persuaded him to ask of her father a field; and she alighted from off her ass; and Caleb said unto her: 'What wouldest thou?'

[Judges 1:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.1.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.1.14/#tree)

וַיְהִ֣י בְּבוֹאָ֗הּ וַתְּסִיתֵ֙הוּ֙ לִשְׁא֤וֹל מֵֽאֵת־אָבִ֙יהָ֙ הַשָּׂדֶ֔ה וַתִּצְנַ֖ח מֵעַ֣ל הַחֲמ֑וֹר וַיֹּֽאמֶר־לָ֥הּ כָּלֵ֖ב מַה־לָּֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* and it.was when came she and she incited.him to ask from with father her the field and she.went.down from on the donkey and he.said to her Caleb what? \[is\].to you

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass, when she came unto him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field; and she alighted from off her ass; and Caleb said unto her: 'What wouldest thou?'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6795.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6795/): 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).