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Hebrew verb · H6749

צָלַל

tsalaltsaw-lal'

to sink

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

Concordance spelling: tsâlal

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6749is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

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    Old Testament books
  • 1
    spelling

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H6749

properly, to tumble down, i.e. settle by awaving motion

The King James renders it: sink. Compare H6750 (צָלַל), H6751 (צָלַל).

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

tsalal is rendered "to sink". It stands 1 time in the Hebrew text, across one book.

  • One of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 15:10But You blew with Your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

The first use

But You blew with Your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

Exodus 15:10צָֽלֲלוּ֙

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

Where the word stands

The word stands in one of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 38 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

  • they sank1

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.

צָלַחtsalachto rushUses65
צָלַלtsalalto tingleUses4
צָלַעtsalato limpUses4
צָלַלtsalalto shadeUses2

Other numbers on this spelling

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

All 1, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

1 spelling 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

  • צָֽלֲלוּ֙1

The grammar of each form

  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVqp3cp

Exodus

one use
  • But You blew with Your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

    Exodus 15:10

    • צָֽלֲלוּ֙tzalaluverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they sank

The letters

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 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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

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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