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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H6654

צַד

tsadtsad

side

33 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6654is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 12 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 25
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H6654

a side; figuratively, an adversary

The King James renders it: (be-) side.

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

tsad is rendered "side". It stands 33 times in the Hebrew text, across twelve books.

  • Nine of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 6:16You are to make a roof for the ark, finish its walls a cubit from the top, place a door in the side of the ark, and build lower, middle, and upper decks.
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-five different ways.

The first use

You are to make a roof for the ark, finish its walls a cubit from the top, place a door in the side of the ark, and build lower, middle, and upper decks.

Genesis 6:16בְּצִדָּ֣הּ

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Nine of the word's thirty-three uses are in Exodus.

The other 27 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • from side of8
  • from side its5
  • side your4
  • a hip2
  • from side your2
  • from sides its2
  • in sides your2
  • sides its2
  • in side its1
  • in side of1
  • into sides1
  • side towards1

and 2 more, 33 uses in all

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.

צַדִּיקtsaddiqrighteousUses206
צַדtsadsideUses2

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

All 33, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

25 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

  • מִצַּ֣ד3
  • מִצַּ֥ד3
  • מִצִּדָּהּ֙2
  • מִצִּדָּ֖הּ2
  • מִצִּדֶּ֑יהָ2
  • צִדָּ֑יו2
  • בְּצַ֣ד1
  • בְּצַ֤ד1
  • בְּצִדָּ֣הּ1
  • בְּצִדֵּיכֶ֑ם1
  • בְּצִדֵּיכֶם֙1
  • לְצִדִּ֔ים1

and 13 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)9HR/Ncmsc
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular5HR/Ncmsc/Sp3fs
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular4HNcmsc/Sp2ms
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HNcmpc/Sp3ms
  • noun · masculine singular2HNcmsa
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural2HR/Ncmpc/Sp2mp
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular2HR/Ncmpc/Sp3fs
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular2HR/Ncmsc/Sp2ms
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmpc
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + directional ending (“toward”)1HNcmsc/Sd
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural1HR/Ncmpa
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa

Genesis

one use
  • You are to make a roof for the ark, finish its walls a cubit from the top, place a door in the side of the ark, and build lower, middle, and upper decks.

    Genesis 6:16

    • בְּצִדָּ֣הּbetzidahpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: in side its

Exodus

nine uses
  • Six branches are to extend from the sides of the lampstand—three on one side and three on the other.

    Exodus 25:32

    • מִצִּדֶּ֑יהָmitzideihapreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: from sides its
    • מִצִּדָּהּ֙mitzidahpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: from side its
    • מִצִּדָּ֖הּmitzidahpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: from side its
  • And the tent curtains will be a cubit longer on either side, and the excess will hang over the sides of the tabernacle to cover it.

    Exodus 26:13

    • צִדֵּ֧יtzideinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: sides of
  • And make two gold rings below the molding on opposite sides to hold the poles used to carry it.

    Exodus 30:4

    • צִדָּ֑יוtzidavnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: sides its
  • Six branches extended from the sides, three on one side and three on the other.

    Exodus 37:18

    • מִצִּדֶּ֑יהָmitzideihapreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: from sides its
    • מִצִּדָּהּ֙mitzidahpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: from side its
    • מִצִּדָּ֖הּmitzidahpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: from side its
  • He made two gold rings below the molding on opposite sides to hold the poles used to carry it.

    Exodus 37:27

    • צִדָּ֑יוtzidavnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: sides its

Numbers

one use
  • But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides; they will harass you in the land where you settle.

    Numbers 33:55

    • בְּצִדֵּיכֶ֑םbetzideikhempreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: in sides your

Deuteronomy

one use
  • “Take this Book of the Law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, so that it may remain there as a witness against you.

    Deuteronomy 31:26

    • מִצַּ֛דmitzadpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from side of

Joshua

three uses
  • the flowing water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) was completely cut off. So the people crossed over opposite Jericho.

    Joshua 3:16

    • מִצַּ֣דmitzadpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from side of
  • the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is near Bethel, one;

    Joshua 12:9

    • מִצַּ֥דmitzadpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from side of
  • know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.

    Joshua 23:13

    • בְּצִדֵּיכֶם֙betzideikhempreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: in sides your

Judges

one use
  • So now I tell you that I will not drive out these people before you; they will be thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.”

    Judges 2:3

    • לְצִדִּ֔יםletzidimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: into sides

Ruth

one use
  • At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here; have some bread and dip it into the vinegar sauce.” So she sat down beside the harvesters, and he offered her roasted grain, and she ate and was satisfied and had some left over.

    Ruth 2:14

    • מִצַּ֣דmitzadpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from side of

1 Samuel

five uses
  • Take the ark of the LORD, set it on the cart, and in a chest beside it put the gold objects you are sending Him as a guilt offering. Then send the ark on its way,

    1 Samuel 6:8

    • מִצִּדּ֑וֹmitzidopreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: from side its
  • I will shoot three arrows to the side of it, as if I were aiming at a target.

    1 Samuel 20:20

    • צִדָּ֣הtzidahnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: side towards
  • He sat in his usual place by the wall, opposite Jonathan and beside Abner, but David’s place was empty.

    1 Samuel 20:25

    • מִצַּ֣דmitzadpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from side of
  • Saul was proceeding along one side of the mountain, and David and his men along the other side. Even though David was hurrying to get away, Saul and his men were closing in on David and his men to capture them.

    1 Samuel 23:26

    • מִצַּ֤דmitzadpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from side of
    • מִצַּ֥דmitzadpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from side of

2 Samuel

two uses
  • Then each man grabbed his opponent by the head and thrust his sword into his opponent’s side, and they all fell together. So this place, which is in Gibeon, is called Helkath-hazzurim.

    2 Samuel 2:16

    • בְּצַ֣דbetzadpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in side of
  • Meanwhile, Absalom had fled. When the young man standing watch looked up, he saw many people coming down the road west of him, along the side of the hill. And the watchman went and reported to the king, “I see men coming from the direction of Horonaim, along the side of the hill.”

    2 Samuel 13:34

    • מִצַּ֥דmitzadpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from side of

Psalms

one use
  • Though a thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand, no harm will come near you.

    Psalms 91:7

    • מִצִּדְּךָ֨׀mitzidekhapreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: from side your

Isaiah

two uses
  • Lift up your eyes and look around: They all gather and come to you; your sons will come from afar, and your daughters will be carried on the arm.

    Isaiah 60:4

    • צַ֥דtzadnoun · masculine singulartagged: a hip
  • For this is what the LORD says: “I will extend peace to her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flowing stream; you will nurse and be carried on her arm, and bounced upon her knees.

    Isaiah 66:12

    • צַד֙tzadnoun · masculine singulartagged: a hip

Ezekiel

six uses
  • Then lie down on your left side and place the iniquity of the house of Israel upon yourself. You are to bear their iniquity for the number of days you lie on your side.

    Ezekiel 4:4

    • צִדְּךָ֣tzidekhanoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: side your
  • When you have completed these days, lie down again, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have assigned to you 40 days, a day for each year.

    Ezekiel 4:6

    • צִדְּךָ֤tzidekhanoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: side your
  • Now behold, I will tie you up with ropes so you cannot turn from side to side until you have finished the days of your siege.

    Ezekiel 4:8

    • מִֽצִּדְּךָ֙mitzidekhapreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: from side your
    • צִדֶּ֔ךָtzidekhanoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: side your
  • But take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. This is what you are to eat during the 390 days you lie on your side.

    Ezekiel 4:9

    • צִדְּךָ֗tzidekhanoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: side your
  • Since you shove with flank and shoulder, butting all the weak ones with your horns until you have scattered them abroad,

    Ezekiel 34:21

    • בְּצַ֤דbetzadpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: with side

The letters

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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.

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Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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