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title: צֹהַר — roof · The Tanakh dictionary
description: צֹהַר (6672), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: roof. BDB 1906: n.f. roof. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# צֹהַר

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«צֹהַר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **roof** — 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:** 6672 · **BDB:** צֹ֫הַר²

### Glosses

a.roof (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

roof [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6672/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. roof [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6672/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. prob. roof (cf.Arabic Assyrian TelAm. back; \> Thes Di al. light, window);—צ׳ תַּעֲשֶׂה לַתֵּבָה Gn 6:16.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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 (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «צֹהַר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6672/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 6:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.6.16/)

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צֹ֣הַר ׀ תַּֽעֲשֶׂ֣ה לַתֵּבָ֗ה וְאֶל־אַמָּה֙ תְּכַלֶ֣נָּהמִלְמַ֔עְלָה וּפֶ֥תַח הַתֵּבָ֖ה בְּצִדָּ֣הּ תָּשִׂ֑ים תַּחְתִּיִּ֛ם שְׁנִיִּ֥ם וּשְׁלִשִׁ֖ים תַּֽעֲשֶֽׂהָ׃

*Word for word:* a.roof you.will.make for the ark and to a.cubit you will.finish.it from to above and the.entrance of the.ark in side its you.will.put lower.\[decks\] second.\[decks\] and third.\[decks\] you will.make.it

*JPS 1917:* A light shalt thou make to the ark, and to a cubit shalt thou finish it upward; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.

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