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title: צָנַח — descend · The Tanakh dictionary
description: צָנַח (6795), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: descend. BDB 1906: vb. descend. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# צָנַח

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«צָנַח» in the Tanakh dictionary: **descend** — 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:** 3 times · **Key:** 6795 · **BDB:** צָנַח

### Glosses

she.went.down (2); it.went.down (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

descend [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6795/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. descend [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6795/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. descend (meaning inferred from context);— Impf. 3 fs. וַתִּצְנַח מֵעַל הַחֲמוֹר Ju 1:14 = Jos 15:18 and she descended (alighted) from the ass; וַתּ׳ בָּאָרֶץ Ju 4:21 and it (the tentpeg) went down into the ground.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «צָנַח» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6795/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Joshua 15:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.18/)

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וַיְהִ֣י בְּבוֹאָ֗הּ וַתְּסִיתֵ֙הוּ֙ לִשְׁא֤וֹל מֵֽאֵת־אָבִ֙יהָ֙ שָׂדֶ֔ה וַתִּצְנַ֖ח מֵעַ֣ל הַחֲמ֑וֹר וַיֹּֽאמֶר־לָ֥הּ כָּלֵ֖ב מַה־לָּֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* and it.was when came she and she incited.him to ask from with father her a.field and she.went.down from on the donkey and he.said to her Caleb what? \[is\].to you

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass, when she came unto him, that she persuaded him to ask of her father a field; and she alighted from off her ass; and Caleb said unto her: 'What wouldest thou?'

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[Judges 1:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.1.14/)

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וַיְהִ֣י בְּבוֹאָ֗הּ וַתְּסִיתֵ֙הוּ֙ לִשְׁא֤וֹל מֵֽאֵת־אָבִ֙יהָ֙ הַשָּׂדֶ֔ה וַתִּצְנַ֖ח מֵעַ֣ל הַחֲמ֑וֹר וַיֹּֽאמֶר־לָ֥הּ כָּלֵ֖ב מַה־לָּֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* and it.was when came she and she incited.him to ask from with father her the field and she.went.down from on the donkey and he.said to her Caleb what? \[is\].to you

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass, when she came unto him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field; and she alighted from off her ass; and Caleb said unto her: 'What wouldest thou?'

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