Hebrew noun (Aramaic, feminine) · H677
אֶצְבַּע
etsbaets-bah'
digit
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼetsbaʻ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H677is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H677
{something to sieze with, i.e. a finger; by analogy, a toe}
The King James renders it: finger, toe.
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
etsba is rendered "digit". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Three of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Daniel 2:41And just as you saw that the feet and toes were made partly of fired clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom, yet some of the strength of iron will be in it—just as you saw the iron mixed with clay.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
And just as you saw that the feet and toes were made partly of fired clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom, yet some of the strength of iron will be in it—just as you saw the iron mixed with clay.
Daniel 2:41וְאֶצְבְּעָתָ֗א
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's three 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
- and toes of1
- and toes the1
- fingers1
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.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- אֶצְבְּעָן֙1
- וְאֶצְבְּעָת֙1
- וְאֶצְבְּעָתָ֗א1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)1AC/Ncfpc
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)1AC/Ncfpd/Ta
- noun · feminine plural1ANcfpa
Daniel
three uses
And just as you saw that the feet and toes were made partly of fired clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom, yet some of the strength of iron will be in it—just as you saw the iron mixed with clay.
- וְאֶצְבְּעָתָ֗אveetzbeata'conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: and toes the
And as the toes of the feet were partly iron and partly clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle.
- וְאֶצְבְּעָת֙veetzbeatconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and toes of
At that moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. As the king watched the hand that was writing,
- אֶצְבְּעָן֙ʾetzbeannoun · feminine pluraltagged: fingers
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.