Hebrew noun (masculine) · H6776
צֶמֶד
tsemedtseh'-med
pair
15 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 H6776is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 8 of 39Old Testament books
- 12spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6776
hence, an acre (i.e. day's task for a yoke of cattle to plough)
The King James renders it: acre, couple, [idiom] together, two (donkeys), yoke (of oxen).
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
tsemed is rendered "pair". It stands 15 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.
- Three of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Judges 19:3her husband got up and went after her to speak kindly to her and bring her back, taking his servant and a pair of donkeys. So the girl brought him into her father’s house, and when her father saw him, he gladly welcomed him.
- The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.
The first use
her husband got up and went after her to speak kindly to her and bring her back, taking his servant and a pair of donkeys. So the girl brought him into her father’s house, and when her father saw him, he gladly welcomed him.
Judges 19:3וְצֶ֣מֶד
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
- a pair of5
- pair of3
- and a pair of2
- pairs2
- acres of1
- an acre of1
- and team his1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| צֶמֶר | tsemer | wool | Uses16 |
All 15, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
12 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
- צֶ֥מֶד2
- צֶֽמֶד־2
- צְמָדִים֙2
- וְצֶ֣מֶד1
- וְצֶ֨מֶד1
- וְצִמְדּ֑וֹ1
- צֶ֤מֶד1
- צֶ֨מֶד1
- צֶ֧מֶד1
- צֶ֚מֶד1
- צֶ֖מֶד1
- צִמְדֵּי־1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)9HNcmsc
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HC/Ncmsc
- noun · masculine plural2HNcmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HC/Ncmsc/Sp3ms
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmpc
Judges
two uses
her husband got up and went after her to speak kindly to her and bring her back, taking his servant and a pair of donkeys. So the girl brought him into her father’s house, and when her father saw him, he gladly welcomed him.
- וְצֶ֣מֶדvetzemedconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and a pair of
But the man was unwilling to spend the night. He got up and departed, and arrived opposite Jebus (that is, Jerusalem), with his two saddled donkeys and his concubine.
- צֶ֤מֶדtzemednoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a pair of
1 Samuel
two uses
He took a pair of oxen, cut them into pieces, and sent them by messengers throughout the land of Israel, proclaiming, “This is what will be done to the oxen of anyone who does not march behind Saul and Samuel.” Then the terror of the LORD fell upon the people, and they turned out as one man.
- צֶ֨מֶדtzemednoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a pair of
In that first assault, Jonathan and his armor-bearer struck down about twenty men over half an acre of land.
- צֶ֥מֶדtzemednoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: an acre of
2 Samuel
one use
When David had gone a little beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth was there to meet him. He had a pair of saddled donkeys loaded with two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred clusters of raisins, a hundred summer fruits, and a skin of wine.
- וְצֶ֨מֶדvetzemedconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and a pair of
1 Kings
two uses
So Elijah departed and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve teams of oxen, and he was with the twelfth team. Elijah passed by him and threw his cloak around him.
- צְמָדִים֙tzemadimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: pairs
So Elisha turned back from him, took his pair of oxen, and slaughtered them. With the oxen’s equipment, he cooked the meat and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he set out to follow and serve Elijah.
- צֶ֧מֶדtzemednoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: pair of
2 Kings
two uses
“If you will not,” said Naaman, “please let me, your servant, be given as much soil as a pair of mules can carry. For your servant will never again make a burnt offering or a sacrifice to any other god but the LORD.
- צֶֽמֶד־tzemed-noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a pair of
And Jehu said to Bidkar his officer, “Pick him up and throw him into the field of Naboth the Jezreelite. For remember that when you and I were riding together behind his father Ahab, the LORD lifted up this burden against him:
- צְמָדִים֙tzemadimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: pairs
Job
two uses
and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man of all the people of the East.
- צֶֽמֶד־tzemed-noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: pair of
So the LORD blessed Job’s latter days more than his first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.
- צֶ֥מֶדtzemednoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: pair of
Isaiah
three uses
For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”
- צִמְדֵּי־tzimdei-noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: acres of
When he sees chariots with teams of horsemen, riders on donkeys, riders on camels, he must be alert, fully alert.”
- צֶ֚מֶדtzemednoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a pair of
Look, here come the riders, horsemen in pairs.” And one answered, saying: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon! All the images of her gods lie shattered on the ground!”
- צֶ֖מֶדtzemednoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a pair of
Jeremiah
one use
With you I shatter the shepherd and his flock; with you I shatter the farmer and his oxen; with you I shatter the governors and officials.
- וְצִמְדּ֑וֹvetzimdoconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and team his
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 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.