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title: צְרִיחַ — excavation · The Tanakh dictionary
description: צְרִיחַ (6877), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: excavation. BDB 1906: excavation, underground chamber. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# צְרִיחַ

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«צְרִיחַ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **excavation** — 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:** 4 times · **Key:** 6877 · **BDB:** צְרִיחַ

### Glosses

chamber (2); chambers (1); the.underground.chamber (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

excavation [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6877/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

excavation, underground chamber [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6877/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] perhaps excavation, underground chamber;—צ׳ abs. Ju 9:49, cstr. v 46; pl. צְרִחִים 1 S 13:6;—used as hiding-places 1 S 13:6 (+ מְעָרוֹת, חֲוָחִים, סְלָעִים, בֹּרוֹת); as refuge Ju 9:46 (where connected with shrine), v 49 (Vrss stronghold; on uncertainty of meaning v. GFM).

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «צְרִיחַ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6877/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Judges 9:46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.9.46/)

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וַֽיִּשְׁמְע֔וּ כָּֽל־בַּעֲלֵ֖י מִֽגְדַּל־שְׁכֶ֑םמִֽגְדַּל־שְׁכֶ֑ם וַיָּבֹ֣אוּ אֶל־צְרִ֔יחַ בֵּ֖ית אֵ֥ל בְּרִֽית אֵ֥ל בְּרִֽית׃

*Word for word:* and they.heard all the.citizens of the.tower.of.Shechem and they.went into the.underground.chamber of.the.house of El-Berith

*JPS 1917:* And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard thereof, they entered into the hold of the house of El-berith.

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[1 Samuel 13:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.13.6/)

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וְאִ֨ישׁ יִשְׂרָאֵ֤ל רָאוּ֙ כִּ֣י צַר־ל֔וֹ כִּ֥י נִגַּ֖שׂ הָעָ֑ם וַיִּֽתְחַבְּא֣וּ הָעָ֗ם בַּמְּעָר֤וֹת וּבַֽחֲוָחִים֙ וּבַסְּלָעִ֔ים וּבַצְּרִחִ֖ים וּבַבֹּרֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and everyone of.Israel they.saw (dm).that it.was.distress to it (dm) it.was.hard.pressed the people and they.hid.themselves the people in (the) caves and in (the) thickets and in (the) cliffs and in.(the) underground chambers and in (the) cisterns

*JPS 1917:* When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait — for the people were distressed — then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in holds, and in pits.

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