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# צָעַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6819

**be insignificant** — 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

be insignificant [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6819/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צָעַר: vb. be grow, insignificant [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6819/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be, or grow, insignificant (‖ זער; NH id., Assyrian ṣeḫêru, be small, Arabic صَغُرَ id.; Syriac ܨܥܰܪ be insignificant, despicable; 𝔗 צְעַר trans. despise, belittle);— Impf. (opp. כָּבֵד), 3 mpl. יִצְעֲרוּ Jb 14:21, יִצְעָ֑רוּ Je 30:19; Pt. as subst. הַצֹּעֲרִים Zc 13:7 (i.e. sheep, in fig., cf. Now).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: they are insignificant (1); they will be insignificant (1); who are\] insignificant (1).

## In the verses

[Job 14:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.14.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.14.21/#tree)

יִכְבְּד֣וּ בָ֭נָיו וְלֹ֣א יֵדָ֑ע וְ֝יִצְעֲר֗וּ וְֽלֹא־יָבִ֥ין לָֽמוֹ׃

*Word for word:* they.are.honored sons his and not he.knows and they.are.insignificant and not he.perceives (to) it

*JPS 1917:* His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he regardeth them not.

[Jeremiah 30:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.30.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.30.19/#tree)

וְיָצָ֥א מֵהֶ֛ם תּוֹדָ֖ה וְק֣וֹל מְשַׂחֲקִ֑ים וְהִרְבִּתִים֙ וְלֹ֣א יִמְעָ֔טוּ וְהִכְבַּדְתִּ֖ים וְלֹ֥א יִצְעָֽרוּ׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.go.out from them thanksgiving and.\[the\] sound of.merry.makers and I will.multiply.them and not they.will.diminish and I will.make.them.honored and not they.will.be.insignificant

*JPS 1917:* And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry; and I will multiply them, and they shall not be diminished, I will also increase them, and they shall not dwindle away.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6819.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6819/): 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).