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Lexicon :: Strong's H6643 - ṣᵊḇî

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צְבִי
Transliteration
ṣᵊḇî
Pronunciation
tseb-ee'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From צָבָה (H6638) in the sense of prominence
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 1869a,1870a

Strong’s Definitions

צְבִי tsᵉbîy, tseb-ee'; from H6638 in the sense of prominence; splendor (as conspicuous):—beautiful(-ty), glorious (-ry), goodly, pleasant, roe(-buck).


KJV Translation Count — Total: 32x

The KJV translates Strong's H6643 in the following manner: roe (9x), roebuck (5x), glory (8x), glorious (6x), beautiful (1x), beauty (1x), goodly (1x), pleasant (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 32x
The KJV translates Strong's H6643 in the following manner: roe (9x), roebuck (5x), glory (8x), glorious (6x), beautiful (1x), beauty (1x), goodly (1x), pleasant (1x).
  1. beauty, glory, honour

    1. beauty, decoration

    2. honour

  2. roebuck, gazelle

    1. perhaps an extinct animal, exact meaning unknown

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
צְבִי tsᵉbîy, tseb-ee'; from H6638 in the sense of prominence; splendor (as conspicuous):—beautiful(-ty), glorious (-ry), goodly, pleasant, roe(-buck).
STRONGS H6643: Abbreviations
† I. צְבִי noun masculine 2 Samuel 1:19 beauty, honour; — absolute צ׳ 2 Samuel 1:19 +, צֶבִ֑י Daniel 8:9; construct צְבִי Isaiah 13:19 +; plural construct צִבְאוֺת Jeremiah 3:19 (so Targum Ki Thes Hi Gf Ol § 145 b Köii. l, 584 and others; > from צבא Syriac Version Gie and others); —
1.
a. beauty, decoration, עֶדְיוֺ צ׳, of silver and gold Ezekiel 7:20, of products of soil Isaiah 4:2 (predict.)
b. elsewhere in figure: of drunkard's chaplet, תִפְאַרְתּוֺ צ׳ Isaiah 28:1, 4 (figurative of Samaria); עֲטֶרֶת צ׳ Isaiah 28:5 (of י׳); הַצּ׳ 2 Samuel 1:19 (Saul and Jonathan); גְּאוֺן כָּלצֿ׳, of Tyre Isaiah 23:9; מַמְלָכוֺת צ׳ Isaiah 13:19 (of Babylonian); of land of Israel (Judah), צְבִי הִיא לְכָלהָֿאֲרָצוֺת Ezekiel 20:6, 15, גּוֺיִם נַחֲלַת צְבִי צִבְאוֺת Jeremiah 3:19 (see above) heritage of the beauty of beauties of the nations, i.e. most beauteous heritage; הַצּ׳ especially of Jerusalem and temple Daniel 8:9 (Bev), compare אֶרֶץ הַצּ׳ Daniel 11:16, 41 (see Dr), קֹֿרֶשׁ הַר צ׳ Daniel 11:45(i.e. temple-hill); of cities of Moab, אֶרֶץ צ׳ Ezekiel 25:9.
2. = honour, דִּיק לַצּ׳ צ׳ Isaiah 24:16. — Ezekiel 26:20 read בִי וְתִתְיַצְּ׳ for וְנָתַתִּי צְבִי, so Lxx Co Berthol Toy Krae and others

† II. צְבִי noun masculineIsaiah 13:14 gazelle; — צ׳ absolute Deuteronomy 12:15 +; plural צְבָיִם 2 Samuel 2:18, צְבָאיִם 1 Chronicles 12:9 (Gi Baer; van d. H. 1 Chronicles 12:8), צְבָאוֺת Songs 2:7; Songs 3:5; — gazelle, allowed as food Deuteronomy 14:5, compare Deuteronomy 12:15, 22 (although not for sacrifice, Dr; all + אַיָּל), so Deuteronomy 15:22 (+ אַיָּל, יַחְמוּר, etc.), see 1 Kings 5:3; simile of swiftness 2 Samuel 2:18; 1 Chronicles 12:9 see above, Proverbs 6:5; of grace and beauty Songs 2:9, 17; Songs 8:14 (compare JacobArab. Dichter iv. 20 f.); hence used in adjuration Songs 2:7; Songs 3:5 (+ אילות); מֻדָּח צ׳ Isaiah 13:14, simile of fugitives.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Deuteronomy

12:15; 12:15; 12:22; 14:5; 15:22

2 Samuel

1:19; 1:19; 1:19; 2:18; 2:18

1 Kings

5:3

1 Chronicles

12:8; 12:9; 12:9

Proverbs

6:5

Song of Songs

2:7; 2:7; 2:9; 2:17; 3:5; 3:5; 8:14

Isaiah

4:2; 13:14; 13:14; 13:19; 13:19; 23:9; 24:16; 28:1; 28:4; 28:5

Jeremiah

3:19; 3:19

Ezekiel

7:20; 20:6; 20:15; 25:9; 26:20

Daniel

8:9; 8:9; 11:16; 11:41; 11:45

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6643 matches the Hebrew צְבִי (ṣᵊḇî),
which occurs 32 times in 32 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:15 - “However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your towns, as much as you desire, according to the blessing of the LORD your God that he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and as of the deer.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:22 - Just as the gazelle or the deer is eaten, so you may eat of it. The unclean and the clean alike may eat of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:5 - the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex,[fn] the antelope, and the mountain sheep.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:22 - You shall eat it within your towns. The unclean and the clean alike may eat it, as though it were a gazelle or a deer.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:19 - “Your glory, O Israel, is slain on your high places!
How the mighty have fallen!
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:18 - And the three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Now Asahel was as swift of foot as a wild gazelle.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:23 - ten fat oxen, and twenty pasture-fed cattle, a hundred sheep, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:8 - From the Gadites there went over to David at the stronghold in the wilderness mighty and experienced warriors, expert with shield and spear, whose faces were like the faces of lions and who were swift as gazelles upon the mountains:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:5 - save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,[fn]
like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:7 - I adjure you,[fn] O daughters of Jerusalem,
by the gazelles or the does of the field,
that you not stir up or awaken love
until it pleases.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:9 - My beloved is like a gazelle
or a young stag.
Behold, there he stands
behind our wall,
gazing through the windows,
looking through the lattice.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:17 - Until the day breathes
and the shadows flee,
turn, my beloved, be like a gazelle
or a young stag on cleft mountains.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:5 - I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
by the gazelles or the does of the field,
that you not stir up or awaken love
until it pleases.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:14 - She
Make haste, my beloved,
and be like a gazelle
or a young stag
on the mountains of spices.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 4:2 - In that day the branch of the LORD shall be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land shall be the pride and honor of the survivors of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:14 - And like a hunted gazelle,
or like sheep with none to gather them,
each will turn to his own people,
and each will flee to his own land.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:19 - And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms,
the splendor and pomp of the Chaldeans,
will be like Sodom and Gomorrah
when God overthrew them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:9 - The LORD of hosts has purposed it,
to defile the pompous pride of all glory,[fn]
to dishonor all the honored of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:16 - From the ends of the earth we hear songs of praise,
of glory to the Righteous One.
But I say, “I waste away,
I waste away. Woe is me!
For the traitors have betrayed,
with betrayal the traitors have betrayed.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:1 - Ah, the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim,
and the fading flower of its glorious beauty,
which is on the head of the rich valley of those overcome with wine!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:4 - and the fading flower of its glorious beauty,
which is on the head of the rich valley,
will be like a first-ripe fig[fn] before the summer:
when someone sees it, he swallows it
as soon as it is in his hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:5 - In that day the LORD of hosts will be a crown of glory,[fn]
and a diadem of beauty, to the remnant of his people,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:19 - “‘I said,
How I would set you among my sons,
and give you a pleasant land,
a heritage most beautiful of all nations.
And I thought you would call me, My Father,
and would not turn from following me.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:20 - His beautiful ornament they used for pride, and they made their abominable images and their detestable things of it. Therefore I make it an unclean thing to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:6 - On that day I swore to them that I would bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most glorious of all lands.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:15 - Moreover, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most glorious of all lands,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:9 - therefore I will lay open the flank of Moab from the cities, from its cities on its frontier, the glory of the country, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:20 - then I will make you go down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you to dwell in the world below, among ruins from of old, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited; but I will set beauty in the land of the living.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:9 - Out of one of them came a little horn, which grew exceedingly great toward the south, toward the east, and toward the glorious land.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:16 - But he who comes against him shall do as he wills, and none shall stand before him. And he shall stand in the glorious land, with destruction in his hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:41 - He shall come into the glorious land. And tens of thousands shall fall, but these shall be delivered out of his hand: Edom and Moab and the main part of the Ammonites.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:45 - And he shall pitch his palatial tents between the sea and the glorious holy mountain. Yet he shall come to his end, with none to help him.
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