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# צְפִירָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6843

**plait** — 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

plait [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6843/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צְפִירָה: n.f. plait, chaplet [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6843/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. plait, chaplet;—abs. צ׳ Ez 7:7, צְפִרָה v 10; cstr. צְפִירַת Is 28:5;—chaplet, coronet, diadem, צ׳ תִּפְאָרַה Is 28:5 (fig. of י׳; ‖ עֲטֶרֶת צְבִי).—צ׳ Ez 7:7, 10 is dub.; AV morning (as Ki, from Aramaic) is unsuitable; most (after AW دَوْرٌ) doom, fate (as coming round upon one, cf. RV Da Toy), but v. DrHast. ii. 176 n.; diadem is possible v 10 (‖ הַמַּטֶּה; of royal house of Judah Co Berthol; or of Jerus. Krae), but not v 7; conj. in Co Berthol Krae.

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 (2 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: doom (2); diadem (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 7:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.7.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.7.10/#tree)

הִנֵּ֥ה הַיּ֖וֹם הִנֵּ֣ה בָאָ֑ה יָֽצְאָה֙ הַצְּפִרָ֔ה צָ֚ץ הַמַּטֶּ֔ה פָּרַ֖ח הַזָּדֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* there! the day there! \[it.is\].coming it.has.gone.forth (the) doom it.has.blossomed the rod it.has.budded (the) presumption

*JPS 1917:* Behold the day; behold, it cometh; the turn is come forth; the rod hath blossomed, arrogancy hath budded.

[Isaiah 28:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.5/#tree)

בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֗וּא יִֽהְיֶה֙ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֔וֹת לַעֲטֶ֣רֶת צְבִ֔י וְלִצְפִירַ֖ת תִּפְאָרָ֑ה לִשְׁאָ֖ר עַמּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* in the day (the) that he.will.become Yahweh of.hosts (into).a crown of.beauty and.(into) a diadem of.splendor for the.remnant his.people his

*JPS 1917:* In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of His people;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6843.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6843/): 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).