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title: צְבִיָּה — female gazelle · The Tanakh dictionary
description: צְבִיָּה (6646), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: female gazelle. BDB 1906: n.f. id. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# צְבִיָּה

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«צְבִיָּה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **female gazelle** — 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:** 4 times · **Key:** 6646 · **BDB:** צְבִיָּה

### Glosses

gazelles (2); of.a.gazelle (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

female gazelle [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6646/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. id. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6646/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. id.;—תְּאוֹמֵי צ׳ Ct 4:5 = 7:4.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «צְבִיָּה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6646/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Song of Songs 7:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.7.4/)

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שְׁנֵ֥י שָׁדַ֛יִךְ כִּשְׁנֵ֥י עֳפָרִ֖ים תָּאֳמֵ֥י צְבִיָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* the.two breasts your \[are\].like two fawns twins of.a.gazelle

*JPS 1917:* Thy two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a gazelle.

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[Song of Songs 4:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.4.5/)

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שְׁנֵ֥י שָׁדַ֛יִךְ כִּשְׁנֵ֥י עֳפָרִ֖ים תְּאוֹמֵ֣י צְבִיָּ֑ה הָרוֹעִ֖ים בַּשּׁוֹשַׁנִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* the.two breasts your \[are\].like two fawns twins of.a.gazelle \[which\] graze among the lilies

*JPS 1917:* Thy two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a gazelle, which feed among the lilies.

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