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title: נָצַץ — shine · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נָצַץ (5340), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: shine. BDB 1906: vb. shine, sparkle. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נָצַץ

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«נָצַץ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **shine** — 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:** 5340 · **BDB:** נָצַץ

### Glosses

\[they.were\].sparkling (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

shine [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5340/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. shine, sparkle [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5340/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. shine, sparkle (NH נִצְנֵץ; akin to Arabic نَاضَ sparkle, flash, 𝔗 נְעָא);— Pt. וְנֹצְצִים כְּעֵין נְחשֶׁת Ez 1:7 (of cherubim);—PerlesAnal.45 proposes נוֹצִיצָם their plumage (נ׳ ‖ form of נוֹצָה), cf. Ew.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נָצַץ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5340/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezekiel 1:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.1.7/)

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וְרַגְלֵיהֶ֖ם רֶ֣גֶל יְשָׁרָ֑ה וְכַ֣ף רַגְלֵיהֶ֗ם כְּכַף֙ רֶ֣גֶל עֵ֔גֶל וְנֹ֣צְצִ֔ים כְּעֵ֖ין נְחֹ֥שֶׁת קָלָֽל׃

*Word for word:* and feet their \[was\].a.foot straight and the.sole their.feet their \[was\].like.\[the\] sole of.\[the\].foot of.a.calf and \[they.were\].sparkling like.\[the\] appearance of.bronze burnished

*JPS 1917:* And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot; and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.

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