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# קָצִין

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7101

**chief** — used 12 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

chief [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7101/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קָצִין²: n.m. chief, ruler [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7101/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Dn 11:18 chief, ruler (proposes decider, cf. Dr Dn 11:18);—abs. ק׳ Ju 11:6 +; cstr. קְצִין Is 3:7; pl. cstr. קְצִינֵי Is 1:10 +; sf. קְצִינַיִךְ Is 22:3;— chief, commander in war Jos 10:24 (JE), Ju 11:6, 11 (‖ רֹאשׁ), Dn 11:18. dictator, Is 3:6, 7. more gen., ruler, man in authority, Is 1:10; 22:3; Mi 3:1, 9; of ants, אֵין ק׳ Pr 6:7 (+ שֹׁטֵר, מֹשֵׁל).—Pr 25:15 read probably קֶצֶף (Toy).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 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: O rulers (3); a ruler (3); commander (3).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 6:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.6.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.6.7/#tree)

אֲשֶׁ֖ר אֵֽין־לָ֥הּ קָצִ֗ין שֹׁטֵ֥ר וּמֹשֵֽׁל׃

*Word for word:* which there.\[is\].not for it commander officer and ruler

*JPS 1917:* Which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

[Proverbs 25:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.15/#tree)

בְּאֹ֣רֶךְ אַ֭פַּיִם יְפֻתֶּ֣ה קָצִ֑ין וְלָשׁ֥וֹן רַ֝כָּ֗ה תִּשְׁבָּר־גָּֽרֶם׃

*Word for word:* by length of.anger(s) he.will.be.persuaded a.ruler and a.tongue soft it.will.break a.bone

*JPS 1917:* By long forbearing is a ruler persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7101.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7101/): 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).