Word Study · Strong's H677 · Hebrew
אֶצְבַּע
etsba
ets-bah'
Strong's 1890 spelling: ʼetsbaʻ
“{something to sieze with, i.e. a finger”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
{something to sieze with, i.e. a finger; by analogy, a toe}
Rendered in the KJV as
finger, toe.
- 3occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 1 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 3inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 3 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 3
- אֶצְבְּעָן֙1
- וְאֶצְבְּעָת֙1
- וְאֶצְבְּעָתָ֗א1
How it is rendered · 3
- and [the] toes of1
- and toes the1
- fingers1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 3
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)1
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)1
- noun · feminine plural1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- AC/Ncfpc · 1
- AC/Ncfpd/Ta · 1
- ANcfpa · 1
All 3, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Daniel3 occurrences
- Daniel 2:41וְאֶצְבְּעָתָ֗אveetzbeata'conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)And just as you saw that the feet and toes were made partly of fired clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom, yet some of the strength of iron will be in it—just as you saw the iron mixed with clay.here: and toes the
- Daniel 2:42וְאֶצְבְּעָת֙veetzbeatconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)And as the toes of the feet were partly iron and partly clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle.here: and [the] toes of
- Daniel 5:5אֶצְבְּעָן֙ʾetzbeannoun · feminine pluralAt that moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. As the king watched the hand that was writing,here: fingers
Same headword in Strong's