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# צָפַף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6850

**chirp** — used 4 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

chirp [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6850/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צָפַף: vb. chirp, peep [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6850/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. chirp, peep (onomatop.; NH Pilp. id.; JAram. צַפְצֵף chirp; Arabic صُفْصُفٌ sparrow, etc.);—Impf. 3 fs. תְּצַפְצֵף Is 29:4, 1 s. אֲצַפְצֵף 38:14; Pt. מְצַפְצֵף 10:14, pl. הַמְצַפְצְפִים 8:19;—chirp, peep: of birds Is 10:14 (fig. of conquered peoples); of mourning, כְּסוּס … אֲצ׳ 38:14 (‖ אֶהְגֶּה כַּיּוֹנָה). of spirits, ghosts Is 8:19 (+ הַמַּהְגִּים), מֵעָפָר אִמְרָתֵךְ תְּצ׳ 29:4 (like a spirit’s).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: I chirp (1); chirping (1); it will whisper (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 38:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.38.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.38.14/#tree)

כְּס֤וּס עָגוּר֙ כֵּ֣ן אֲצַפְצֵ֔ף אֶהְגֶּ֖ה כַּיּוֹנָ֑ה דַּלּ֤וּ עֵינַי֙ לַמָּר֔וֹם אֲדֹנָ֖י עָֽשְׁקָה־לִּ֥י עָרְבֵֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* like a.swallow a.crane so I.chirp I.moan like (the) dove they.are.low eyes my to the height\[s\] Lord my oppression \[belongs\].to me stand surety.for.me

*JPS 1917:* Like a swallow or a crane, so do I chatter, I do moan as a dove; mine eyes fail with looking upward. O LORD, I am oppressed, be Thou my surety.

[Isaiah 29:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.29.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.29.4/#tree)

וְשָׁפַלְתְּ֙ מֵאֶ֣רֶץ תְּדַבֵּ֔רִי וּמֵֽעָפָ֖ר תִּשַּׁ֣ח אִמְרָתֵ֑ךְ וְֽ֠הָיָה כְּא֤וֹב מֵאֶ֙רֶץ֙ קוֹלֵ֔ךְ וּמֵעָפָ֖ר אִמְרָתֵ֥ךְ תְּצַפְצֵֽף׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.become.low from.\[the\] ground you.will.speak and from.\[the\] dust it.will.be.humbled utterance your and it.will.be like a.necromancer from.\[the\] ground voice your and from.\[the\] dust utterance your it.will.whisper

*JPS 1917:* And brought down thou shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust; and thy voice shall be as of a ghost out of the ground, and thy speech shall chirp out of the dust.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6850.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6850/): 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).