Hebrew verb (Aramaic) · H6634
צְבָא
tsebatseb-aw'
to will
10 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tsᵉbâʼ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6634is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6634
to please
The King James renders it: will, would.
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
tseba is rendered "to will". It stands 10 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Ten of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Daniel 4:17This decision is the decree of the watchers, the verdict declared by the holy ones, so that the living will know that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes, setting over it the lowliest of men.’
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
This decision is the decree of the watchers, the verdict declared by the holy ones, so that the living will know that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes, setting over it the lowliest of men.’
Daniel 4:17יִצְבֵּא֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Ten of the word's ten uses are in Daniel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- he will be pleased4
- pleased4
- and as pleases he1
- I desired1
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.
All 10, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 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
- יִצְבֵּ֖א2
- צָבֵא֙2
- וּֽכְמִצְבְּיֵ֗הּ1
- יִצְבֵּא֙1
- יִצְבֵּ֖ה1
- צָבֵ֜א1
- צָבֵ֖א1
- צְבִית֙1
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular4AVqi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular4AVqrmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1AC/R/Vqcc/Sp3ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular1AVqp1cs
Daniel
ten uses
This decision is the decree of the watchers, the verdict declared by the holy ones, so that the living will know that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes, setting over it the lowliest of men.’
- יִצְבֵּא֙yitzbe'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will be pleased
You will be driven away from mankind, and your dwelling will be with the beasts of the field. You will feed on grass like an ox and be drenched with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass you by, until you acknowledge that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes.
- יִצְבֵּ֖אyitzbe'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will be pleased
You will be driven away from mankind to live with the beasts of the field, and you will feed on grass like an ox. And seven times will pass you by, until you acknowledge that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes.”
- יִצְבֵּ֖אyitzbe'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will be pleased
All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”
- וּֽכְמִצְבְּיֵ֗הּukhemitzbeyehconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and as pleases he
Because of the greatness that He bestowed on him, the people of every nation and language trembled in fear before him. He killed whom he wished and kept alive whom he wished; he exalted whom he wished and humbled whom he wished.
- צָבֵ֜אtzave'verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: pleased
- צָבֵא֙tzave'verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: pleased
- צָבֵא֙tzave'verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: pleased
- צָבֵ֖אtzave'verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: pleased
He was driven away from mankind, and his mind was like that of a beast. He lived with the wild donkeys and ate grass like an ox, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven until he acknowledged that the Most High God rules over the kingdom of mankind, setting over it whom He wishes.
- יִצְבֵּ֖הyitzbehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will be pleased
Then I wanted to know the true meaning of the fourth beast, which was different from all the others—extremely terrifying—devouring and crushing with iron teeth and bronze claws, then trampling underfoot whatever was left.
- צְבִית֙tzevitverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I desired
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.