Hebrew verb · H6751
צָלַל
tsalaltsaw-lal'
to shade
2 uses 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 H6751is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6751
to shade, as twilight or an opaque object
The King James renders it: begin to be dark, shadowing.
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 shade". It stands 2 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- One of the uses stand in Nehemiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Nehemiah 13:19When the evening shadows began to fall on the gates of Jerusalem, just before the Sabbath, I ordered that the gates be shut and not opened until after the Sabbath. I posted some of my servants at the gates so that no load could enter on the Sabbath day.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
When the evening shadows began to fall on the gates of Jerusalem, just before the Sabbath, I ordered that the gates be shut and not opened until after the Sabbath. I posted some of my servants at the gates so that no load could enter on the Sabbath day.
Nehemiah 13:19צָֽלֲלוּ֩
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- giving shade1
- they became dark1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| צָלַח | tsalach | to rush | Uses65 |
| צָלַל | tsalal | to tingle | Uses4 |
| צָלַע | tsala | to limp | Uses4 |
| צָלַל | tsalal | to sink | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 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
- מֵצַ֖ל1
- צָֽלֲלוּ֩1
The grammar of each form
- verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singular1HVhrmsa
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVqp3cp
Nehemiah
one use
When the evening shadows began to fall on the gates of Jerusalem, just before the Sabbath, I ordered that the gates be shut and not opened until after the Sabbath. I posted some of my servants at the gates so that no load could enter on the Sabbath day.
- צָֽלֲלוּ֩tzalaluverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they became dark
Ezekiel
one use
Look at Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches that shaded the forest. It towered on high; its top was among the clouds.
- מֵצַ֖לmetzalverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: giving shade
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.