Hebrew noun (masculine) · H6767
צְלָצַל
tselatsaltsel-aw-tsal'
buzzing; spear; whirring; banging
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tsᵉlâtsal
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6767is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
- 4meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6767
a clatter, i.e. (abstractly) whirring (of wings); (concretely) a cricket; also a harpoon (as rattling), a cymbal (as clanging)
The King James renders it: cymbal, locust, shadowing, spear.
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
tselatsal is rendered "buzzing; spear; whirring; banging". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Two of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists four meanings for it, beginning with "buzzing".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 28:42Swarms of locusts will consume all your trees and the produce of your land.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
Swarms of locusts will consume all your trees and the produce of your land.
Deuteronomy 28:42הַצְּלָצַֽל׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's six uses are in Psalms.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word four senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: buzzing, and spear, and whirring, and banging.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| buzzingStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereDeuteronomy 28:42Swarms of locusts will consume all your trees and the produce of your land. |
| spearStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
| whirringStrong's entry C | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
| bangingStrong's entry D | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- with cymbals of2
- and on cymbals1
- and with a spear of1
- the locust1
- whirring of1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| צְלָא | tsela | to pray | Uses2 |
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 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
- בְּֽצִלְצְלֵ֥י1
- בְצִלְצְלֵי־1
- הַצְּלָצַֽל׃1
- וּבְצִלְצַ֖ל1
- וּֽבְצֶלְצֶלִֽים׃1
- צִלְצַ֣ל1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)2HR/Ncmpc
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural1HC/R/Ncmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/R/Ncmsc
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
Deuteronomy
one use
Swarms of locusts will consume all your trees and the produce of your land.
- הַצְּלָצַֽל׃hatzelatzalthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the locust
2 Samuel
one use
David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the LORD with all kinds of wood instruments, harps, stringed instruments, tambourines, sistrums, and cymbals.
- וּֽבְצֶלְצֶלִֽים׃uvetzeltzelimconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and on cymbals
Job
one use
Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?
- וּבְצִלְצַ֖לuvetziltzalconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and with a spear of
Psalms
two uses
Praise Him with clashing cymbals; praise Him with resounding cymbals.
- בְצִלְצְלֵי־vetziltzelei-preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: with cymbals of
- בְּֽצִלְצְלֵ֥יbetziltzeleipreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: with cymbals of
Isaiah
one use
Woe to the land of whirring wings, along the rivers of Cush,
- צִלְצַ֣לtziltzalnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: whirring of
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.