Hebrew noun (masculine) · H2180
זָנָב
zanabzaw-nawb'
tail
11 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: zânâb
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2180is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 11spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2180
the tail (literally or figuratively)
The King James renders it: tail.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
zanab is rendered "tail". It stands 11 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Four of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 4:4“Stretch out your hand and grab it by the tail,” the LORD said to Moses, who reached out his hand and caught the snake, and it turned back into a staff in his hand.
- The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.
The first use
“Stretch out your hand and grab it by the tail,” the LORD said to Moses, who reached out his hand and caught the snake, and it turned back into a staff in his hand.
Exodus 4:4בִּזְנָב֑וֹ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's eleven uses are in Isaiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and tail2
- into tail2
- tail2
- on tail its1
- stumps of1
- tail its1
- the tail1
- the tails1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| זָנָה | zanah | to fornicate | Uses94 |
All 11, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
11 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בִּזְנָב֑וֹ1
- הַזָּנָֽב׃1
- הַזְּנָב֖וֹת1
- וְזָנָ֛ב1
- וְזָנָ֖ב1
- זָנָב֙1
- זָנָ֔ב1
- זְנָב֣וֹ1
- זַנְב֧וֹת1
- לְזָנָ֔ב1
- לְזָנָֽב׃1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular2HC/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular2HNcmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular2HR/Ncmsa
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfpc
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcmsc/Sp3ms
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HR/Ncmsc/Sp3ms
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine plural1HTd/Ncfpa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
Exodus
one use
“Stretch out your hand and grab it by the tail,” the LORD said to Moses, who reached out his hand and caught the snake, and it turned back into a staff in his hand.
- בִּזְנָב֑וֹbiznavopreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: on tail its
Deuteronomy
two uses
The LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward, if you hear and carefully follow the commandments of the LORD your God, which I am giving you today.
- לְזָנָ֔בlezanavpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into tail
He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.
- לְזָנָֽב׃lezanavpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into tail
Judges
three uses
Then Samson went out and caught three hundred foxes. And he took torches, turned the foxes tail-to-tail, and fastened a torch between each pair of tails.
- זָנָב֙zanavnoun · masculine singulartagged: tail
- זָנָ֔בzanavnoun · masculine singulartagged: tail
- הַזְּנָב֖וֹתhazenavotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the tails
Job
one use
His tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are tightly knit.
- זְנָב֣וֹzenavonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: tail its
Isaiah
four uses
and say to him: Calm down and be quiet. Do not be afraid or disheartened over these two smoldering stubs of firewood—over the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and of the son of Remaliah.
- זַנְב֧וֹתzanvotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: stumps of
So the LORD will cut off Israel’s head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day.
- וְזָנָ֛בvezanavconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and tail
The head is the elder and honorable man, and the tail is the prophet who teaches lies.
- הַזָּנָֽב׃hazanavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the tail
There is nothing Egypt can do—head or tail, palm or reed.
- וְזָנָ֖בvezanavconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and tail
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.