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# צָפִיעַ

Biblical Hebrew

**dung** — 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

dung [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/lemma_3a_5e6_5b8_5e4_5b4_5d9_5e2_5b7/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צָפִיעַ: dung [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/lemma_3a_5e6_5b8_5e4_5b4_5d9_5e2_5b7/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] dung of cattle;—pl. cstr. צְפִיעֵי הַבָּקָר Ez 4:15 Qr (opp. גֶּלְלֵי הָאָדָם), so Co Toy al., \> Kt צפועי.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the dung(s) (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 4:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.4.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.4.15/#tree)

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלַ֔י רְאֵ֗ה נָתַ֤תִּֽי לְךָ֙ אֶת־צְפִיעֵ֣י הַבָּקָ֔ר תַּ֖חַת גֶּלְלֵ֣י הָֽאָדָ֑ם וְעָשִׂ֥יתָ אֶֽת־לַחְמְךָ֖ עֲלֵיהֶֽם׃ס

*Word for word:* and he.said to me see I.give to you (et) the.dung(s) of.(the) cattle in.place.of the.dung(s) of.(the) humankind and you.will.make (et) bread your on them

*JPS 1917:* Then He said unto me: 'See, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread thereon.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e6_5b8_5e4_5b4_5d9_5e2_5b7.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/lemma_3a_5e6_5b8_5e4_5b4_5d9_5e2_5b7/): 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).