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# צֳרִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6875

**balsam** — used 6 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

balsam [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6875/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צֳרִי: balsam [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6875/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** (Gn 37:25) (וּ)צְרִי, צֹ֑רִי Ez 27:17 n.\[m.\] a kind of balsam, as merchandise Gn 37:25 (J), gift Gn 43:11 (J), medicament Je 8:22; 46:11; 51:8 (for national disaster, in fig.);—ThDyer-M’Lean in Ency. Bib.Balm think a resin, like (not necess. =) gum of mastic-tree, pistacia lentiscus (otherwise PostHastings DB).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (31 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (27 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: balm (5); of balm (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 51:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.8/#tree)

פִּתְאֹ֛ם נָפְלָ֥ה בָבֶ֖ל וַתִּשָּׁבֵ֑ר הֵילִ֣ילוּ עָלֶ֗יהָ קְח֤וּ צֳרִי֙ לְמַכְאוֹבָ֔הּ אוּלַ֖י תֵּרָפֵֽא׃

*Word for word:* suddenly it.will.fall Babylon and it.was.broken wail on it get balm for pain its perhaps it.will.be.healed

*JPS 1917:* Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed, wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

[Jeremiah 8:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.8.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.8.22/#tree)

הַצֳרִי֙ אֵ֣ין בְּגִלְעָ֔ד אִם־רֹפֵ֖א אֵ֣ין שָׁ֑ם כִּ֗י מַדּ֙וּעַ֙ לֹ֣א עָֽלְתָ֔ה אֲרֻכַ֖ת בַּת־עַמִּֽי׃

*Word for word:* ? balm \[is\].there.not in Gilead or? a.physician \[is\].there.not there (dm) why? not has.it.come.up the.healing of.the.daughter my.people my

*JPS 1917:* Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6875/): 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).