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# צְרוֹר

Biblical Hebrew

**pebble** — 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

pebble [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/lemma_3a_5e6_5b0_5e8_5d5_5b9_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צְרוֹר²: n.m. pebble [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/lemma_3a_5e6_5b0_5e8_5d5_5b9_5e8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. pebble;—צ׳ 2 S 17:13; also Am 9:9 (where perhaps fig. for grain of wheat, in metaph. of winnowed Isr., cf. Dr Now al.; \> pebble retained in sieve PreuschenZAW xv (1895), 24, cf. on custom WetzstZPV xiv (1891), 2 f.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a pebble (2); of Zeror (1).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 9:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.9.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.9.1/#tree)

וַֽיְהִי־אִ֣ישׁ מִבִּנְיָמִ֗יןוּ֠שְׁמוֹ קִ֣ישׁ בֶּן־אֲבִיאֵ֞ל בֶּן־צְר֧וֹר בֶּן־בְּכוֹרַ֛ת בֶּן־אֲפִ֖יחַ בֶּן־אִ֣ישׁ יְמִינִ֑י גִּבּ֖וֹר חָֽיִל׃

*Word for word:* and he.was a.man from Benjamin and name his \[was\].Kish the.son of.Abiel the.son of.Zeror the.son of.Becorath the.son of.Aphiah a.son of.a.man a.Jaminite a.mighty.\[man\] of.wealth

*JPS 1917:* Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah, the son of a Benjamite, a mighty man of valour.

[Amos 9:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.9.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.9.9/#tree)

כִּֽי־הִנֵּ֤ה אָֽנֹכִי֙ מְצַוֶּ֔ה וַהֲנִע֥וֹתִי בְכָֽל־הַגּוֹיִ֖ם אֶת־בֵּ֣ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר יִנּ֙וֹעַ֙ בַּכְּבָרָ֔ה וְלֹֽא־יִפּ֥וֹל צְר֖וֹר אָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) here! I \[am\].about.to.command and I.will.shake among all the nations (et) the.house of.Israel just as it.is.shaken in (the) sieve and not it.will.fall a.pebble \[the\].ground

*JPS 1917:* For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e6_5b0_5e8_5d5_5b9_5e8.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/lemma_3a_5e6_5b0_5e8_5d5_5b9_5e8/): 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).