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title: צְלִיל — cake · The Tanakh dictionary
description: צְלִיל (6742), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: cake. BDB 1906: n.m. cake, round loaf. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# צְלִיל

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«צְלִיל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **cake** — 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:** 6742 · **BDB:** צלול

### Glosses

a.round.loaf (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

cake [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6742/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. cake, round loaf [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6742/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** Kt, צְלִיל Qr n.m. cake, round loaf;—צ׳ לֶחֶם שְׂעֹרִים Ju 7:13 (cf. GFM).

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «צְלִיל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6742/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Judges 7:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.7.13/)

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וַיָּבֹ֣א גִדְע֔וֹן וְהִ֨נֵּה־אִ֔ישׁ מְסַפֵּ֥ר לְרֵעֵ֖הוּ חֲל֑וֹם וַיֹּ֜אמֶר הִנֵּ֧ה חֲל֣וֹם חָלַ֗מְתִּי וְהִנֵּ֨ה צְלִ֜יל לֶ֤חֶם שְׂעֹרִים֙ מִתְהַפֵּךְ֙ בְּמַחֲנֵ֣ה מִדְיָ֔ן וַיָּבֹ֣א עַד־הָ֠אֹהֶל וַיַּכֵּ֧הוּ וַיִּפֹּ֛ל וַיַּהַפְכֵ֥הוּ לְמַ֖עְלָה וְנָפַ֥ל הָאֹֽהֶל׃

*Word for word:* and he.came Gideon and there! a.man \[was\].recounting to neighbor his a.dream and he.said here! a.dream I.have.dreamed and there! a.round.loaf of.bread of.barley(s) \[was\].tumbling in the.camp of.Midian and it.came to the tent and it struck.it and it.fell and it overturned.it (to) upwards and it.fell the tent

*JPS 1917:* And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man telling a dream unto his follow, and saying: 'Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, and came unto the tent, and smote it that it fell, and turned it upside down, that the tent lay flat.'

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