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title: צֳרִי — balsam · The Tanakh dictionary
description: צֳרִי (6875), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 6 times: balsam. BDB 1906: balsam. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# צֳרִי

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«צֳרִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **balsam** — 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:** 6 times · **Key:** 6875 · **BDB:** צֳרִי

### Glosses

balm (5); of.balm (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

balsam [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6875/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

balsam [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6875/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** (Gn 37:25) (וּ)צְרִי, צֹ֑רִי Ez 27:17 n.\[m.\] a kind of balsam, as merchandise Gn 37:25 (J), gift Gn 43:11 (J), medicament Je 8:22; 46:11; 51:8 (for national disaster, in fig.);—ThDyer-M’Lean in Ency. Bib.Balm think a resin, like (not necess. =) gum of mastic-tree, pistacia lentiscus (otherwise PostHastings DB).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (31 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (27 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «צֳרִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6875/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 51:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.8/)

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פִּתְאֹ֛ם נָפְלָ֥ה בָבֶ֖ל וַתִּשָּׁבֵ֑ר הֵילִ֣ילוּ עָלֶ֗יהָ קְח֤וּ צֳרִי֙ לְמַכְאוֹבָ֔הּ אוּלַ֖י תֵּרָפֵֽא׃

*Word for word:* suddenly it.will.fall Babylon and it.was.broken wail on it get balm for pain its perhaps it.will.be.healed

*JPS 1917:* Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed, wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

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[Jeremiah 8:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.8.22/)

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הַצֳרִי֙ אֵ֣ין בְּגִלְעָ֔ד אִם־רֹפֵ֖א אֵ֣ין שָׁ֑ם כִּ֗י מַדּ֙וּעַ֙ לֹ֣א עָֽלְתָ֔ה אֲרֻכַ֖ת בַּת־עַמִּֽי׃

*Word for word:* ? balm \[is\].there.not in Gilead or? a.physician \[is\].there.not there (dm) why? not has.it.come.up the.healing of.the.daughter my.people my

*JPS 1917:* Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

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