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title: צֶאֱלִים — lotus · The Tanakh dictionary
description: צֶאֱלִים (6628), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: lotus. BDB 1906: n.m.pl. lotus. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# צֶאֱלִים

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«צֶאֱלִים» in the Tanakh dictionary: **lotus** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 6628 · **BDB:** צֶאֱלִים

### Glosses

thorny.lotus.plants (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

lotus [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6628/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m.pl. lotus [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6628/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m.pl. a kind of lotus (Rhamnus (more exactly Zizyphus), Lotus \[Linn.\], thorny lotus (not sacred Nymphaea Lotus); Saad. ضَالٌ, cf. AW De Job 2, Syriac ܥܳܐܠܴܐ, v. Löwp. 275);—Jb 40:21, 22.

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «צֶאֱלִים» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6628/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 40:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.21/)

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תַּֽחַת־צֶאֱלִ֥ים יִשְׁכָּ֑ב בְּסֵ֖תֶר קָנֶ֣ה וּבִצָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* under thorny.lotus.plants it.lies in a.hiding.place of.reed\[s\] and swamp

*JPS 1917:* He lieth under the lotus-trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.

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[Job 40:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.22/)

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יְסֻכֻּ֣הוּ צֶאֱלִ֣ים צִֽלֲל֑וֹ יְ֝סֻבּ֗וּהוּ עַרְבֵי־נָֽחַל׃

*Word for word:* they cover.it thorny.lotus.plants shade its they surround.it \[the\].poplars of.\[the\].wadi

*JPS 1917:* The lotus-trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.

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