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title: צוּץ — gaze · The Tanakh dictionary
description: צוּץ (lemma:צוּץ), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: gaze. BDB 1906: vb. gaze, peep. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# צוּץ

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«צוּץ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **gaze** — 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:** lemma:צוּץ · **BDB:** צוּץ²

### Glosses

\[he.is\].peering (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

gaze [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/lemma_3a_5e6_5d5_5bc_5e5/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. gaze, peep [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/lemma_3a_5e6_5d5_5bc_5e5/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. gaze, peep (NH Hiph. gaze (rare); Aramaic צִיץ gaze);—Pt. מֵצִיץ מִן־הַחֲרַכִּים Ct 2:9 (v. ח׳, p. 355).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «צוּץ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/lemma_3a_5e6_5d5_5bc_5e5/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Song of Songs 2:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.2.9/)

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דּוֹמֶ֤ה דוֹדִי֙ לִצְבִ֔י א֖וֹ לְעֹ֣פֶר הָֽאַיָּלִ֑ים הִנֵּה־זֶ֤ה עוֹמֵד֙ אַחַ֣ר כָּתְלֵ֔נוּ מַשְׁגִּ֙יחַ֙ מִן־הַֽחֲלֹּנ֔וֹת מֵצִ֖יץ מִן־הַֽחֲרַכִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].like lover my (to).a gazelle or (to \[the\].fawn of the.deer(s) there! this \[he.is\].standing behind wall our \[he.is\].gazing from the windows \[he.is\].peering from the lattices

*JPS 1917:* My beloved is like a gazelle or a young hart; behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh in through the windows, he peereth through the lattice.

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