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title: זֶבַח — Zebah · The Tanakh dictionary
description: זֶבַח (2078), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 12 times: Zebah. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# זֶבַח

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«זֶבַח» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Zebah** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 12 times · **Key:** 2078 · **BDB:** זֶ֫בַח²

### Glosses

Zebah (10); of.Zebah (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Zebah [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2078/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2078/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. a Midianite king Ju 8:5, 6, 7, 10, 12(×2), 15(×2), 18, 21(×2) ψ 83:12, 𝔊 Ζεβεε.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 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, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «זֶבַח» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2078/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 83:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.83.12/)

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שִׁיתֵ֣מוֹ נְ֭דִיבֵמוֹ כְּעֹרֵ֣ב וְכִזְאֵ֑ב וּֽכְזֶ֥בַח וּ֝כְצַלְמֻנָּ֗ע כָּל־נְסִיכֵֽמוֹ׃

*Word for word:* make them their.noble \[people\] like Oreb and like Zeeb and like Zebah and like Zalmunna all princes their

*JPS 1917:* Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and like Zebah and Zalmunna all their princes;

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[Judges 8:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.8.6/)

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וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ שָׂרֵ֣י סֻכּ֔וֹת הֲ֠כַף זֶ֧בַח וְצַלְמֻנָּ֛ע עַתָּ֖ה בְּיָדֶ֑ךָ כִּֽי־נִתֵּ֥ן לִֽצְבָאֲךָ֖ לָֽחֶם׃

*Word for word:* and he.said the.officials of.Succoth \[is\].the palm? of.Zebah and Zalmunna now in hand your (cmp) we.will.give to army your bread

*JPS 1917:* And the princes of Succoth said: 'Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thy power, that we should give bread unto thine army?'

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