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title: צִן — Zin · The Tanakh dictionary
description: צִן (6790), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 10 times: Zin. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# צִן

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«צִן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Zin** — 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:** 10 times · **Key:** 6790 · **BDB:** צִן

### Glosses

of.Zin (8); to (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Zin [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6790/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6790/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Σ(ε)ιν; name of wilderness S. of Canaan, where lay Kadesh Barnea, c. ה loc. צִ֫נָה Nu 34:4 (where LagBN 47 חצן), Jos 15:3 (van d. H. צִ֫נָּה in Jos); elsewhere מִדְבַּר־צִן Nu 13:21; 20:1; 27:14(×2); 33:36; 34:3 Dt 32:51; Jos 15:1 (all P).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «צִן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6790/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 13:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.13.21/)

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וַֽיַּעֲל֖וּ וַיָּתֻ֣רוּ אֶת־הָאָ֑רֶץ מִמִּדְבַּר־צִ֥ן עַד־רְחֹ֖ב לְבֹ֥א חֲמָֽת׃

*Word for word:* and they.went.up and they.spied.out (et) the land from the.wilderness of.Zin to Rehob Lebo Hamath

*JPS 1917:* So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, at the entrance to Hamath.

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[Numbers 33:36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.33.36/)

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וַיִּסְע֖וּ מֵעֶצְי֣וֹנ גָּ֑בֶר עֶצְי֣וֹנ גָּ֑בֶר וַיַּחֲנ֥וּ בְמִדְבַּר־צִ֖ן הִ֥וא קָדֵֽשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and they.set.out from Ezion Geber and they.encamped in the.wilderness of.Zin that \[is\].Kadesh

*JPS 1917:* And they journeyed from Ezion-geber, and pitched in the wilderness of Zin — the same is Kadesh.

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