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title: סַנְסִנָּה — Sansannah · The Tanakh dictionary
description: סַנְסִנָּה (5577), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Sansannah. BDB 1906: pl. fruit-stalk. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# סַנְסִנָּה

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«סַנְסִנָּה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Sansannah** — 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:** 5577 · **BDB:** סַנְסִנִּים

### Glosses

fruit-stalks (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Sansannah [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5577/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

pl. fruit-stalk [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5577/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\]pl. fruit-stalk of date (Löw p. 119) (Aramaic loan-word from ܣܺܝܣܢܳܐ PS2617 racemus dactylorum, cf. Assyrian sissinnu, part of the date-palm Dl 507);—sf. אֹחֲזָה בְּסַנְסִנָּ֑יו Ct 7:9.

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Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech differs, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «סַנְסִנָּה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5577/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Song of Songs 7:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.7.9/)

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אָמַ֙רְתִּי֙ אֶעֱלֶ֣ה בְתָמָ֔ר אֹֽחֲזָ֖ה בְּסַנְסִנָּ֑יו וְיִֽהְיוּ־נָ֤א שָׁדַ֙יִךְ֙ כְּאֶשְׁכְּל֣וֹת הַגֶּ֔פֶן וְרֵ֥יחַ אַפֵּ֖ךְ כַּתַּפּוּחִֽים׃

*Word for word:* I.say I.will.climb.up on.\[the\] palm.tree I.will.take.hold on fruit-stalks its and may.they.be please breasts your like the.clusters of.(the) vine and the.odor your.nose your like (the) apples

*JPS 1917:* I said: 'I will climb up into the palm-tree, I will take hold of the branches thereof; and let thy breasts be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy countenance like apples;

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