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title: זַלְזַלִּים — tendrils · The Tanakh dictionary
description: זַלְזַלִּים (2150), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: tendrils. BDB 1906: tendrils. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# זַלְזַלִּים

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«זַלְזַלִּים» in the Tanakh dictionary: **tendrils** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 2150 · **BDB:** זַלְזַל

### Glosses

shoots (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

tendrils [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2150/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

tendrils [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2150/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] (quivering) tendrils;—only pl. tendrils of vine הַזַּלְזַלִּים Is 18:5 (‖ הַנְּטִישׁוֹת), in fig. of Yahweh’s destroying the Assyrians.

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Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «זַלְזַלִּים» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2150/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 18:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.18.5/)

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כִּֽי־לִפְנֵ֤י קָצִיר֙ כְּתָם־פֶּ֔רַח וּבֹ֥סֶר גֹּמֵ֖ל יִֽהְיֶ֣ה נִצָּ֑ה וְכָרַ֤ת הַזַּלְזַלִּים֙ בַּמַּזְמֵר֔וֹת וְאֶת־הַנְּטִישׁ֖וֹת הֵסִ֥יר הֵתַֽז׃

*Word for word:* (dm) before harvest just as.is.finished bud\[s\] and unripe.grape\[s\] ripening it.will.become blossom and he.will.cut.off the shoots with.(the) pruning knives and (et) the tendrils he.will.remove he.will.cut.away

*JPS 1917:* For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the bud becometh a ripening grape, He will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the shoots will He take away and lop off.

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