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# צְפַרְדֵּעַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6854

**frogs** — used 13 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

frogs [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6854/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צְפַרְדֵּעַ: n.f. frogs [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6854/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. Ex 8:2 (cf. also AlbrZAW xv (1895), 322 Ges§§ 135 o, 145 o) frogs (Arabic ضِفْدِعٌ, etc.; Aramaic עוּרְדְּעָנַיָּא, אוּרְדְּעָא, ܐܽܘܪܕܥܳܐ );—frogs, coll. Ex 8:2 ψ 78:45; pl. צְפַרְדְּעִים Ex 7:27, 28, 29; 8:1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 ψ 105:30.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 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: frogs (10); frog\[s\] (2); the frogs (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 105:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.105.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.105.30/#tree)

שָׁרַ֣ץ אַרְצָ֣ם צְפַרְדְּעִ֑ים בְּ֝חַדְרֵ֗י מַלְכֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* it.swarmed land their frogs in the.rooms their.kings their

*JPS 1917:* Their land swarmed with frogs, in the chambers of their kings.

[Psalms 78:45](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.45/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.45/#tree)

יְשַׁלַּ֬ח בָּהֶ֣ם עָ֭רֹב וַיֹּאכְלֵ֑ם וּ֝צְפַרְדֵּ֗עַ וַתַּשְׁחִיתֵֽם׃

*Word for word:* he.sent among them a.swarm.of.flies and it devoured.them and frog\[s\] and it ruined.them

*JPS 1917:* He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6854.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6854/): 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).