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# צׇרְעָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6881

**Zareah** — used 10 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

Zareah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6881/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צָרְעָה: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6881/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Σαραα, etc. (cf. also LagBN 85), in the Shephelah of Judah (TelAm. Ṣarḫa, named with Aialuna, Ajalon);—Jos 15:33, but assigned to Dan 19:41; Ju 13:2, 25; 16:31; 18:2, 8, 11; 2 Ch 11:10 Ne 11:29; mod. Ṣarʿa, 15 miles W. from Jerus., cf. GASmGeogr. 218 BuhlGeogr. 195.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: Zorah (10).

## In the verses

[Joshua 15:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.33/#tree)

בַּשְּׁפֵלָ֑ה אֶשְׁתָּא֥וֹל וְצָרְעָ֖ה וְאַשְׁנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* in the Shephelah Eshtaol and Zorah and Ashnah

*JPS 1917:* In the Lowland: Eshtaol, and Zorah, and Ashnah;

[Joshua 19:41](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.19.41/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.19.41/#tree)

וַיְהִ֖י גְּב֣וּל נַחֲלָתָ֑ם צָרְעָ֥ה וְאֶשְׁתָּא֖וֹל וְעִ֥יר שָֽׁמֶשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and it.was the.territory their.inheritance their Zorah and Eshtaol and.\[the\] city of.\[the\].sun

*JPS 1917:* And the border of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Ir-shemesh;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6881/): 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).