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title: צָנִיף — turban · The Tanakh dictionary
description: צָנִיף (6797), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: turban. BDB 1906: n.m. turban. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# צָנִיף

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«צָנִיף» in the Tanakh dictionary: **turban** — 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:** 5 times · **Key:** 6797 · **BDB:** צָנִיף

### Glosses

a.turban (3); headdresses (1); turban (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

turban [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6797/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. turban [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6797/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Zc 3:5 turban;—abs. צ׳ Zc 3:5(×2) (for h. priest) and (fig. of righteousness) Jb 29:14; cstr. צְנִיף מְלוּכָה Is 62:3 Qr royal turban (Kt צנוף); pl. הַצְּנִיפוֹת Is 3:23 (of women’s turbans).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «צָנִיף» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6797/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 29:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.29.14/)

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צֶ֣דֶק לָ֭בַשְׁתִּי וַיִּלְבָּשֵׁ֑נִי כִּֽמְעִ֥יל וְ֝צָנִ֗יף מִשְׁפָּטִֽי׃

*Word for word:* righteousness I.put.on and it clothed.me \[was\].like a.robe and a.turban justice my

*JPS 1917:* I put on righteousness, and it clothed itself with me; my justice was as a robe and a diadem.

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[Isaiah 3:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.3.23/)

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וְהַגִּלְיֹנִים֙ וְהַסְּדִינִ֔ים וְהַצְּנִיפ֖וֹת וְהָרְדִידִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and the mirrors and the.linen garments and the headdresses and the shawls

*JPS 1917:* and the gauze robes, and the fine linen, and the turbans, and the mantles.

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