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# צְרִיחַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6877

**excavation** — 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

excavation [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6877/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צְרִיחַ: excavation, underground chamber [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6877/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] perhaps excavation, underground chamber;—צ׳ abs. Ju 9:49, cstr. v 46; pl. צְרִחִים 1 S 13:6;—used as hiding-places 1 S 13:6 (+ מְעָרוֹת, חֲוָחִים, סְלָעִים, בֹּרוֹת); as refuge Ju 9:46 (where connected with shrine), v 49 (Vrss stronghold; on uncertainty of meaning v. GFM).

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Judges 9:46](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.9.46/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.9.46/#tree)

וַֽיִּשְׁמְע֔וּ כָּֽל־בַּעֲלֵ֖י מִֽגְדַּל־שְׁכֶ֑םמִֽגְדַּל־שְׁכֶ֑ם וַיָּבֹ֣אוּ אֶל־צְרִ֔יחַ בֵּ֖ית אֵ֥ל בְּרִֽית אֵ֥ל בְּרִֽית׃

*Word for word:* and they.heard all the.citizens of the.tower.of.Shechem and they.went into the.underground.chamber of.the.house of El-Berith

*JPS 1917:* And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard thereof, they entered into the hold of the house of El-berith.

[1 Samuel 13:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.13.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.13.6/#tree)

וְאִ֨ישׁ יִשְׂרָאֵ֤ל רָאוּ֙ כִּ֣י צַר־ל֔וֹ כִּ֥י נִגַּ֖שׂ הָעָ֑ם וַיִּֽתְחַבְּא֣וּ הָעָ֗ם בַּמְּעָר֤וֹת וּבַֽחֲוָחִים֙ וּבַסְּלָעִ֔ים וּבַצְּרִחִ֖ים וּבַבֹּרֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and everyone of.Israel they.saw (dm).that it.was.distress to it (dm) it.was.hard.pressed the people and they.hid.themselves the people in (the) caves and in (the) thickets and in (the) cliffs and in.(the) underground chambers and in (the) cisterns

*JPS 1917:* When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait — for the people were distressed — then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in holds, and in pits.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6877.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6877/): 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).