Hebrew verb (Aramaic) · H6647
צְבַע
tsebatseb-ah'
to drench
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tsᵉbaʻ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6647is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6647
to dip
The King James renders it: wet.
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 drench". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Five of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Daniel 4:15But leave the stump with its roots in the ground, and a band of iron and bronze around it, in the tender grass of the field. Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven and graze with the beasts on the grass of the earth.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
But leave the stump with its roots in the ground, and a band of iron and bronze around it, in the tender grass of the field. Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven and graze with the beasts on the grass of the earth.
Daniel 4:15יִצְטַבַּ֔ע
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's five 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
- it became wet2
- let it become wet2
- making wet1
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 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- יִצְטַבַּ֑ע2
- יִצְטַבַּ֔ע1
- יִצְטַבַּ֗ע1
- מְצַבְּעִ֔ין1
The grammar of each form
- verb · poal, yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular4AVMi3ms
- verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine plural1AVprmpa
Daniel
five uses
But leave the stump with its roots in the ground, and a band of iron and bronze around it, in the tender grass of the field. Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven and graze with the beasts on the grass of the earth.
- יִצְטַבַּ֔עyitztaba'verb · poal, yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: let it become wet
And you, O king, saw a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven and saying: ‘Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump with its roots in the ground, and a band of iron and bronze around it, in the tender grass of the field. Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven, and graze with the beasts of the field till seven times pass him by.’
- יִצְטַבַּ֗עyitztaba'verb · poal, yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: let it become wet
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.
- מְצַבְּעִ֔יןmetzabeinverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: making wet
At that moment the sentence against Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled. He was driven away from mankind. He ate grass like an ox, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle and his nails like the claws of a bird.
- יִצְטַבַּ֑עyitztaba'verb · poal, yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it became wet
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.
- יִצְטַבַּ֑עyitztaba'verb · poal, yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it became wet
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.