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title: צְמָרִי — Tsemarite · The Tanakh dictionary
description: צְמָרִי (6786), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: Tsemarite. BDB 1906: adj. gent. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# צְמָרִי

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«צְמָרִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Tsemarite** — 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:** 6786 · **BDB:** צְמָרִי

### Glosses

Zemarite\[s\] (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Tsemarite [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6786/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. gent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6786/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. gent. c. art. as subst. coll. (people of the city called Ṣimirra by Assyrian, COTGn DlPa 281 f., Egyptian Ḏa-(m)-ma-rḁ WMMAs. u. Eur. 187; TelAm. Ṣumur according to ZimZPV xiii (1890), 145 JastrJBL xii (1893), 63; Gk. τὰ Σίμυρα, etc., e.g. Straboxvi, 2, 12, \> WklMVG 1896, 203 f., cf. TelAm. 40 thinks צ׳, Σίμυρα, = Assyrian Zimarra, distinct from Ṣimirra-Ṣumur);—הַצּ׳ Gn 10:18 = 1 Ch 1:16, 𝔊 τὸν Σαμαραῖον; Ez 27:11 Co reads וּצְמָרִים for וְגַמָּדִים (q.v.); Toy Krae retain וְג׳;—cf. mod. Ṣumra, N. of Tripoli and S. of Ruad (Arvad), v. PietschmPhön. 39 BädPal. 3 (1898), 407.

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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 (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «צְמָרִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6786/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Chronicles 1:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.16/)

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וְאֶת־הָאַרְוָדִ֥י וְאֶת־הַצְּמָרִ֖י וְאֶת־הַֽחֲמָתִֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* and (et) the Arvadite\[s\] and (et) the Zemarite\[s\] and (et) the Hamathite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.

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[Genesis 10:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.18/)

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וְאֶת־הָֽאַרְוָדִ֥י וְאֶת־הַצְּמָרִ֖י וְאֶת־הַֽחֲמָתִ֑י וְאַחַ֣ר נָפֹ֔צוּ מִשְׁפְּח֖וֹת הַֽכְּנַעֲנִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the Arvadite\[s\] and (et) the Zemarite\[s\] and (et) the Hamathite\[s\] and after they.were.scattered the.clans of the.Canaanite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite; and afterward were the families of the Canaanite spread abroad.

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