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# שַׂהֲרֹנִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7720

**moon** — 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

moon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7720/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שַׂהֲרוֹן: moon crescent [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7720/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] moon, or crescent;—only pl. הַשַּׂהֲרֹנִים of (non-Israel.) ornaments of camels Ju 8:21, kings v 26, women Is 3:18, 𝔊 μηνίσκοι, 𝔙 (Is 3:18) lunulae; on crescent as ornament v. Dozyii. 760 LaneEgypt. ii. 314 PerlesAnal. 79, cf. Frä58.

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 3:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.3.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.3.18/#tree)

בַּיּ֨וֹם הַה֜וּא יָסִ֣יר אֲדֹנָ֗י אֵ֣ת תִּפְאֶ֧רֶת הָעֲכָסִ֛ים וְהַשְּׁבִיסִ֖ים וְהַשַּׂהֲרֹנִֽים׃

*Word for word:* in the day (the) that he.will.remove Lord \[the\] (et) the.splendor of the.anklets and the amulets and the ornaments

*JPS 1917:* In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their anklets, and the fillets, and the crescents;

[Judges 8:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.8.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.8.21/#tree)

וַיֹּ֜אמֶר זֶ֣בַח וְצַלְמֻנָּ֗ע ק֤וּם אַתָּה֙ וּפְגַע־בָּ֔נוּ כִּ֥י כָאִ֖ישׁ גְּבוּרָת֑וֹ וַיָּ֣קָם גִּדְע֗וֹן וַֽיַּהֲרֹג֙ אֶת־זֶ֣בַח וְאֶת־צַלְמֻנָּ֔ע וַיִּקַּח֙ אֶת־הַשַּׂ֣הֲרֹנִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֖ר בְּצַוְּארֵ֥י גְמַלֵּיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Zebah and Zalmunna arise you and fall on us (dm) \[is\].like the man strength his and he.arose Gideon and he.killed (et) Zebah and (et) Zalmunna and he.took (et) the ornaments which \[were\].on the.necks their.camels their

*JPS 1917:* Then Zebah and Zalmunna said: 'Rise thou, and fall upon us; for as the man is, so is his strength.' And Gideon arose, and slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescents that were on their camels' necks.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7720.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7720/): 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).