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# צָפַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6852

**let him return and** — 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

let him return and [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6852/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צָפַר: vb. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6852/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb.;— Impf. 3 ms. יָשֹׁב וְיִצְפֹּר מֵהַר הַגִּלְעָד Ju 7:3 let him return and (Vrss) let him depart, AV depart early (as Ki, from Aramaic צפרא, ܨܰܦܪܳܐ morning, improb.), wholly uncertain; Gr וְיַעֲבֹר; on difficulty of מֵהַר הַגּ׳ v. גִּלְעָד 2, and GFM, who conj. וַיִּצְרְפֵם גִּדְעֹן and so Gideon put them to the test (cf. v 4), so Bu Now (cf. DrHast. ii. 176 n).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Judges 7:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.7.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.7.3/#tree)

וְעַתָּ֗ה קְרָ֨א נָ֜א בְּאָזְנֵ֤י הָעָם֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר מִֽי־יָרֵ֣א וְחָרֵ֔ד יָשֹׁ֥ב וְיִצְפֹּ֖ר מֵהַ֣ר הַגִּלְעָ֑ד וַיָּ֣שָׁב מִן־הָעָ֗ם עֶשְׂרִ֤ים וּשְׁנַ֙יִם֙ אֶ֔לֶף וַעֲשֶׂ֥רֶת אֲלָפִ֖ים נִשְׁאָֽרוּ׃ס

*Word for word:* and therefore proclaim please in the.ears of the.people (cmp) who? \[is\].fearful and trembling let.him.go.back and let.him.go from the.mountain of.(the) Gilead and it.returned of the people twenty and two thousand and ten thousand(s) they.remained

*JPS 1917:* Now therefore make proclamation in the ears of the people, saying: Whosoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead.' And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6852.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6852/): 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).