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# צָעַד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6805

**step** — used 8 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

step [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6805/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צָעַד: vb. step, march [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6805/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. step, march (NH id. (rare); Arabic صَعِدَ ascend);— Pf. 3 fs. צָֽעֲדָה Gn 49:22 (but on text v. infr.); 3 pl. צָֽעֲדוּ 2 S 6:13; Impf. 3 ms. יִצְעָ֑ד Pr 7:8, etc.; Inf. cstr. sf. בְּצַעַדְךָ Ju 5:4, בְּצַעְדְּךָ ψ 68:8;—step, march, of י׳ Ju 5:4 ψ 68:8 (c. ב loc.), Hb 3:12 (c. acc. אֶרֶץ); read prob. also צֹעֵד Is 63:1 (for MT צֹעֶה, v. צעה); of men, c. acc. cogn. צְעָדִים 2 S 6:13 they had gone six steps; c. acc. דֶּרֶךְ step a certain way Pr 7:8; of idols, לֹא יִצְעָ֑דוּ Je 10:5.—בָּנוֹת צָֽעֲדָה עֲלֵי־שׁוּר Gn 49:22 is dubious: usually (its) daughters (twigs of bough) have climbed over the wall (on sg. vb. v. Ges§ 145 k; others think ה—ָ old fpl. ending, e.g. NöZMG xxxviii (1884), 411 JPPetersHbr iii (1887), 111; v (1888), 199; conject. emend. of text v. in BallHpt Holz). Impf. 3 fs. sf. וְתַצְעִדֵהוּ Jb 18:14 and it (an unseen power Di; disease Du, reading וְיַצ׳) makes him march, c. ל pers.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: marched (2); he strode (1); it (1).

## In the verses

[Habakkuk 3:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.3.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.3.12/#tree)

בְּזַ֖עַם תִּצְעַד־אָ֑רֶץ בְּאַ֖ף תָּד֥וּשׁ גּוֹיִֽם׃

*Word for word:* in indignation you.march \[the\].earth in anger you.trample.down nations

*JPS 1917:* Thou marchest through the earth in indignation, Thou threshest the nations in anger.

[Genesis 49:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.22/#tree)

בֵּ֤ן פֹּרָת֙ יוֹסֵ֔ף בֵּ֥ן פֹּרָ֖ת עֲלֵי־עָ֑יִן בָּנ֕וֹת צָעֲדָ֖ה עֲלֵי־שֽׁוּר׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].a.son of.a.fruit-bearer Joseph a.son of.a.fruit-bearer at a.spring daughters she.will.climb over a.wall

*JPS 1917:* Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a fountain; its branches run over the wall.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6805.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6805/): 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).