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# צָפִיר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6842

**he-goat** — used 6 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

he-goat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6842/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צָפִיר: n.m. he-goat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6842/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. he-goat (late);—abs. צ׳ Dn 8:5, 21; cstr. צְפִיר הָעִזִּים v 5, 8 (all in vision, symbol. of Alex.); pl. cstr. (lit.) צְפִירֵי עִזִּים 2 Ch 29:21, צְפִירֵי חַטָּאת Ezr 8:35 he-goats for a sin-offering.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he-goat (2); he-goats (2); the he-goat (2).

## In the verses

[Daniel 8:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.8.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.8.21/#tree)

וְהַצָּפִ֥יר הַשָּׂעִ֖יר מֶ֣לֶךְ יָוָ֑ן וְהַקֶּ֤רֶן הַגְּדוֹלָה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בֵּין־עֵינָ֔יו ה֖וּא הַמֶּ֥לֶךְ הָרִאשֽׁוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and the he-goat (the) hairy \[is\].the.king of.Greece and the horn (the) great which \[is\].between eyes its it \[is\].the king (the) first

*JPS 1917:* And the rough he-goat is the king of Greece; and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.

[Daniel 8:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.8.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.8.8/#tree)

וּצְפִ֥יר הָעִזִּ֖ים הִגְדִּ֣יל עַד־מְאֹ֑ד וּכְעָצְמ֗וֹ נִשְׁבְּרָה֙ הַקֶּ֣רֶן הַגְּדוֹלָ֔ה וַֽתַּעֲלֶ֜נָה חָז֤וּת אַרְבַּע֙ תַּחְתֶּ֔יהָ לְאַרְבַּ֖ע רוּח֥וֹת הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and the.he-goat of the.goats it.magnified.itself up.to muchness and just as it.became.mighty it.was.broken the horn (the) great and they.grew.up conspicuousness four in its.place to the.four the.winds of the.heavens

*JPS 1917:* And the he-goat magnified himself exceedingly; and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and instead of it there came up the appearance of four horns toward the four winds of heaven.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6842.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6842/): 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).