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title: צָמַת — put an end to · The Tanakh dictionary
description: צָמַת (6789), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 15 times: put an end to. BDB 1906: vb. put an end to, exterminate Qal Pi. Pi. Piʿlēl. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# צָמַת

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«צָמַת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **put an end to** — 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:** 15 times · **Key:** 6789 · **BDB:** צָמַת

### Glosses

I (2); I.will.destroy (2); he (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

put an end to [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6789/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. put an end to, exterminate Qal Pi. Pi. Piʿlēl [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6789/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. put an end to, exterminate, poet. and (in Qal, Pi.) hyperb. (proposes compress, NH id., press together; Arabic صَمَتَ is be silent, ii, iv. make speechless, silence; Syriac ܨܡܰܬ be silent (in Lexx));— Pf. 3 pl. צָֽמְתוּ … חַיָּ֑י La 3:53 they have put an end to my life (Bu conj. Pi.). be ended, annihilated; Pf. 1 s. נִצְמַתִּי מִפְּנֵי־חשֶׁךְ Jb 23:17 I am \[not\] annihilated because of (the) darkness; 3 pl. נִצְמָ֑תוּ Jb 6:17 (of dried-up brooks). Pf. 3 fs. sf. צִמְּחַתְנִי ψ 119:139 קִנְאָתִי hath put an end to me (it is so intense). Piʿlēl Pf. 3 pl. sf. צִמְּתֻתוּנִי (but read צִמְּתוּנִי Ges§ 55 d, or צִמְּתָ֑תְנִי Hi \[Ges§ 145 k\]; cf. Bae) ψ 88:17 thine alarms have annihilated me. Pf. 2 ms. הִצְמַתָּה ψ 73:27; Impf. 3 ms. sf. יַצְמִיתֵם ψ 94:23(×2); 2 ms. תַּצְמִית ψ 143:12, etc.; Imv. ms. sf. הַצְמִיתֵם ψ 54:7; Pt. pl. sf. מַצְמִיתַי ψ 69:5;—exterminate, annihilate, c. acc. pers., subj. Psalmist ψ 18:41 = 2 S 22:41 (read as in ψ), 101:5, 8; his foes ψ 69:5; י׳ 54:7; 73:27; 94:23(×2); 143:12.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «צָמַת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6789/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 88:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.88.17/)

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עָ֭לַי עָבְר֣וּ חֲרוֹנֶ֑יךָ בִּ֝עוּתֶ֗יךָ צִמְּתוּתֻֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* over me they.have.passed anger(s) your terrors your they have.destroyed.me

*JPS 1917:* Thy fierce wrath is gone over me; Thy terrors have cut me off.

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[Psalms 73:27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.73.27/)

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כִּֽי־הִנֵּ֣ה רְחֵקֶ֣יךָ יֹאבֵ֑דוּ הִ֝צְמַ֗תָּה כָּל־זוֹנֶ֥ה מִמֶּֽךָּ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) there! \[people\].far from.you they.will.perish you.destroy every \[one.who\].acts.as.a.prostitute from you

*JPS 1917:* For, lo, they that go far from Thee shall perish; Thou dost destroy all them that go astray from Thee.

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