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# צָנַם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6798

**dry up** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

dry up [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6798/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צָנַם: vb. dry up, harden [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6798/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. dry up, harden (cf. Aramaic צוּנָמָא, ܨܘܢܳܡܳܐ, stone);— Pt. pass. fpl. צְנֻמוֹת Gn 41:23 (E) of ears of grain.

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

## In the verses

[Genesis 41:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.41.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.41.23/#tree)

וְהִנֵּה֙ שֶׁ֣בַע שִׁבֳּלִ֔ים צְנֻמ֥וֹת דַּקּ֖וֹת שְׁדֻפ֣וֹת קָדִ֑ים צֹמְח֖וֹת אַחֲרֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and there! seven ears.of.grain withered thin scorched of.an.east.wind \[were\].springing.up after them

*JPS 1917:* And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6798.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6798/): 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).