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# צִרְעָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6880

**hornets** — 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

hornets [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6880/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צִרְעָה: n.f.coll. hornets [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6880/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f.coll. hornets (? as wounding, prostrating; NH = BH);—allies of Isr.;—הַצּ׳ Ex 23:28; Jos 24:12 (both E), Dt 7:20.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 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 (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: hornet (3).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 7:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.7.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.7.20/#tree)

וְגַם֙ אֶת־הַצִּרְעָ֔ה יְשַׁלַּ֛ח יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ בָּ֑ם עַד־אֲבֹ֗ד הַנִּשְׁאָרִ֛ים וְהַנִּסְתָּרִ֖ים מִפָּנֶֽיךָ׃

*Word for word:* and also (et) the hornet he.will.send Yahweh God your among them until perish \[those who\].remain and \[those who\].hide.themselves from before you

*JPS 1917:* Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and they that hide themselves, perish from before thee.

[Exodus 23:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.23.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.23.28/#tree)

וְשָׁלַחְתִּ֥י אֶת־הַצִּרְעָ֖ה לְפָנֶ֑יךָ וְגֵרְשָׁ֗ה אֶת־הַחִוִּ֧י אֶת־הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֛י וְאֶת־הַחִתִּ֖י מִלְּפָנֶֽיךָ׃

*Word for word:* and I.will.send (et) the hornet before you and it.will.drive.out (et) the Hivite\[s\] (et) the Canaanite\[s\] and (et) the Hittite\[s\] from before face you

*JPS 1917:* And I will send the hornet before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6880.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6880/): 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).