---
title: צֵן — thorn · The Tanakh dictionary
description: צֵן (6791), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: thorn. BDB 1906: thorn? barb. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6791.html)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/) / [צ](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1510-2.md)‎ / צֵן‎

<!-- .hw dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
# צֵן

<!-- .meta -->
«צֵן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **thorn** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 6791 · **BDB:** צֵן²

### Glosses

thorns (2); barbs (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

thorn [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6791/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

thorn? barb [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6791/#m2)

<!-- fold -->
**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] thorn? barb?;—pl. צִנִּים Pr 22:5 (+ פַּחִים); וְאֶל־מִצִּנִּים Jb 5:5 from (behind) thorns (a protecting thorn hedge, so Di), but very dub.; CheJQ July, 1897, 576 del. as doublet of צַמִּים; BevJPhil. xxvl, 305 proposes וְאֹנָם צִנִּים \[and as to their wealth, barbs (? barbed spears) take it\].

<!-- .note -->
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 (9 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 «צֵן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6791/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

<!-- div verse -->

<!-- .ref -->
[Proverbs 22:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.22.5/)

<!-- .vt dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
צִנִּ֣ים פַּ֭חִים בְּדֶ֣רֶךְ עִקֵּ֑שׁ שׁוֹמֵ֥ר נַ֝פְשׁ֗וֹ יִרְחַ֥ק מֵהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* thorns snares \[are\].in.\[the\] path of.a.perverse.\[person\] \[one.who\].guards self his he.will.be.far from them

*JPS 1917:* Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward; he that keepeth his soul holdeth himself far from them.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- div verse -->

<!-- .ref -->
[Job 5:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.5.5/)

<!-- .vt dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
אֲשֶׁ֤ר קְצִיר֨וֹ ׀ רָ֘עֵ֤ב יֹאכֵ֗ל וְאֶֽל־מִצִּנִּ֥ים יִקָּחֵ֑הוּ וְשָׁאַ֖ף צַמִּ֣ים חֵילָֽם׃

*Word for word:* who harvest his \[the\].hungry he.eats and to from thorns he takes.it and it.pants.for a.snare wealth their

*JPS 1917:* Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the snare gapeth for their substance.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [צִן](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6790.md)
- next →: [צֹנֶה](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6792.md)
- ↑ back to [צ](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1510-2.md)