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title: צְבִי — beauty · The Tanakh dictionary
description: צְבִי (6643), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 18 times: beauty. BDB 1906: n.m. beauty, honour. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# צְבִי

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«צְבִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **beauty** — 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:** 18 times · **Key:** 6643 · **BDB:** צְבִי

### Glosses

beauty (5); splendor (3); the.beauty (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

beauty [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6643/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. beauty, honour [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6643/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m.2 S 1:19 beauty, honour;—abs. צ 2 S 1:19 +, צֶ֑בִי Dn 8:9; cstr. צְבִי Is 13:19 +; pl. cstr. צִבְאוֹת Je 3:19 (so 𝔗 Ki Thes Hi Gf Ol§ 145 b Köii. 1, 584 al.; \> from צבא 𝔙 Gie al.);— beauty, decoration, צ׳ עֶדְיוֹ, of silver and gold Ez 7:20, of products of soil Is 4:2 (predict.). elsewhere in fig.: of drunkard’s chaplet, צ׳ תִפְאַרְתּוֹ Is 28:1, 4 (fig. of Samaria); עֲטֶרֶת צ׳ v 5 (of י׳); הַצּ׳ 2 S 1:19 (Saul and Jonathan); גְּאוֹן כָּל־צ׳, of Tyre Is 23:9; צ׳ מַמְלָכוֹת 13:19 (of Bab.); of land of Isr. (Judah), צְבִי הִיא לְכָל־הָאֲרָצוֹת Ez 20:6, 15, נַחֲלַת צְבִי צִבְאוֹת גּוֹיִם Je 3:19 (v. supr.) heritage of the beauty of beauties of the nations, i.e. most beauteous heritage; הַצּ׳ especially of Jerus. and temple Dn 8:9 (Bev), cf. אֶרֶץ הַצּ׳ 11:16, 41 (v. Dr), הַר צ׳־קֹדֶשׁ v 45 (i.e. temple-hill); of cities of Moab, צ׳ אֶרֶץ Ez 25:9. = honour, צ׳ לַצַּדִּיק Is 24:16.—Ez 26:20; read וְתִתְיַצְּבִי for וְנָתַתִּי צְבִי, so 𝔊 Co Berthol Toy Krae al.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 18 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «צְבִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6643/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Samuel 1:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.1.19/)

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הַצְּבִי֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל עַל־בָּמוֹתֶ֖יךָ חָלָ֑ל אֵ֖יךְ נָפְל֥וּ גִבּוֹרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* the beauty O.Israel on places your.high \[is\].slain how! they.have.fallen \[the\].mighty.\[ones\]

*JPS 1917:* Thy beauty, O Israel, upon thy high places is slain! How are the mighty fallen!

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[Isaiah 23:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.23.9/)

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יְהוָ֥ה צְבָא֖וֹת יְעָצָ֑הּ לְחַלֵּל֙ גְּא֣וֹן כָּל־צְבִ֔י לְהָקֵ֖ל כָּל־נִכְבַּדֵּי־אָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* Yahweh of.hosts he planned.it to profane \[the\].pride of.all splendor to treat.with.contempt all \[the\].honored.\[people\] of.\[the\].earth

*JPS 1917:* The LORD of hosts hath devised it, to pollute the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.

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