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title: צָפַר — let him return and · The Tanakh dictionary
description: צָפַר (6852), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: let him return and. BDB 1906: vb. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# צָפַר

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«צָפַר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **let him return and** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 6852 · **BDB:** צָפַר

### Glosses

let.him.go (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

let him return and [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6852/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6852/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb.;— Impf. 3 ms. יָשֹׁב וְיִצְפֹּר מֵהַר הַגִּלְעָד Ju 7:3 let him return and (Vrss) let him depart, AV depart early (as Ki, from Aramaic צפרא, ܨܰܦܪܳܐ morning, improb.), wholly uncertain; Gr וְיַעֲבֹר; on difficulty of מֵהַר הַגּ׳ v. גִּלְעָד 2, and GFM, who conj. וַיִּצְרְפֵם גִּדְעֹן and so Gideon put them to the test (cf. v 4), so Bu Now (cf. DrHast. ii. 176 n).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «צָפַר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6852/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Judges 7:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.7.3/)

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וְעַתָּ֗ה קְרָ֨א נָ֜א בְּאָזְנֵ֤י הָעָם֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר מִֽי־יָרֵ֣א וְחָרֵ֔ד יָשֹׁ֥ב וְיִצְפֹּ֖ר מֵהַ֣ר הַגִּלְעָ֑ד וַיָּ֣שָׁב מִן־הָעָ֗ם עֶשְׂרִ֤ים וּשְׁנַ֙יִם֙ אֶ֔לֶף וַעֲשֶׂ֥רֶת אֲלָפִ֖ים נִשְׁאָֽרוּ׃ס

*Word for word:* and therefore proclaim please in the.ears of the.people (cmp) who? \[is\].fearful and trembling let.him.go.back and let.him.go from the.mountain of.(the) Gilead and it.returned of the people twenty and two thousand and ten thousand(s) they.remained

*JPS 1917:* Now therefore make proclamation in the ears of the people, saying: Whosoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead.' And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.

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