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title: צָהֹב — gleaming · The Tanakh dictionary
description: צָהֹב (6669), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: gleaming. BDB 1906: adj. gleaming, yellow. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# צָהֹב

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«צָהֹב» in the Tanakh dictionary: **gleaming** — 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:** 3 times · **Key:** 6669 · **BDB:** צָהֹב

### Glosses

yellow (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

gleaming [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6669/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. gleaming, yellow [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6669/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. gleaming, yellow (of hair);—שֵׂעָר צ׳ Lv 13:30, 32, 36 (opp. שׂ׳ שָׁחֹר v 31, 37).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «צָהֹב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6669/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Leviticus 13:36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.36/)

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וְרָאָ֙הוּ֙ הַכֹּהֵ֔ן וְהִנֵּ֛ה פָּשָׂ֥ה הַנֶּ֖תֶק בָּע֑וֹר לֹֽא־יְבַקֵּ֧ר הַכֹּהֵ֛ן לַשֵּׂעָ֥ר הַצָּהֹ֖ב טָמֵ֥א הֽוּא׃

*Word for word:* and he will.see.it the priest and there! it.has.spread the scall in the skin not he.will.seek the priest for the hair (the) yellow \[is\].unclean he

*JPS 1917:* then the priest shall look on him; and, behold, if the scall be spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for the yellow hair: he is unclean.

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[Leviticus 13:32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.32/)

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וְרָאָ֨ה הַכֹּהֵ֣ן אֶת־הַנֶּגַע֮ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִי֒ וְהִנֵּה֙ לֹא־פָשָׂ֣ה הַנֶּ֔תֶק וְלֹא־הָ֥יָה ב֖וֹ שֵׂעָ֣ר צָהֹ֑ב וּמַרְאֵ֣ה הַנֶּ֔תֶק אֵ֥ין עָמֹ֖ק מִן־הָעֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.see the priest (et) the plague on the day (the) seventh and there! not it.has.spread the scall and not it.was in it hair yellow and the.appearance of the.scall not \[is\].deep more.than the skin

*JPS 1917:* And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague; and, behold, if the scall be not spread, and there be in it no yellow hair, and the appearance of the scall be not deeper than the skin,

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