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title: צְמִתֻת — completion · The Tanakh dictionary
description: צְמִתֻת (6783), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: completion. BDB 1906: n.f. completion, finality. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# צְמִתֻת

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«צְמִתֻת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **completion** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 6783 · **BDB:** צְמִיתֻת²

### Glosses

perpetuity (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

completion [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6783/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. completion, finality [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6783/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. completion, finality, only in phr. לִצ׳, לַצּ׳ = in perpetuity, of alienation of land; לִצְמִתֻת Lv 25:23, לַצְּמִיתֻת v 30 (P).

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «צְמִתֻת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6783/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Leviticus 25:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.25.23/)

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וְהָאָ֗רֶץ לֹ֤א תִמָּכֵר֙ לִצְמִתֻ֔ת כִּי־לִ֖י הָאָ֑רֶץ כִּֽי־גֵרִ֧ים וְתוֹשָׁבִ֛ים אַתֶּ֖ם עִמָּדִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and the land not it.will.be.sold to perpetuity (dm) \[belongs\].to me the land (dm) \[are\].sojourners and resident.aliens you with me

*JPS 1917:* And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is Mine; for ye are strangers and settlers with Me.

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[Leviticus 25:30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.25.30/)

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וְאִ֣ם לֹֽא־יִגָּאֵ֗ל עַד־מְלֹ֣את לוֹ֮ שָׁנָ֣ה תְמִימָה֒ וְ֠קָם הַבַּ֨יִת אֲשֶׁר־בָּעִ֜יר אֲשֶׁר־ל֣וֹ חֹמָ֗ה לַצְּמִיתֻ֛ת לַקֹּנֶ֥ה אֹת֖וֹ לְדֹרֹתָ֑יו לֹ֥א יֵצֵ֖א בַּיֹּבֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and if not it.will.be.redeemed until is.completed to it a.year complete and it.will.stand the house which \[is\].in the city which \[belongs\].to it a.wall to (the) perpetuity to the.\[one who\].bought it to generations his not it.will.go.out in the jubilee

*JPS 1917:* And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be made sure in perpetuity to him that bought it, throughout his generations; it shall not go out in the jubilee.

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