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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H6785

צֶמֶר

tsemertseh'-mer

wool

16 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 H6785is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 9 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 14
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H6785

wool

The King James renders it: wool(-len).

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

tsemer is rendered "wool". It stands 16 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.

  • Four of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 13:47If any fabric is contaminated with mildew—any wool or linen garment,
  • The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.

The first use

If any fabric is contaminated with mildew—any wool or linen garment,

Leviticus 13:47צֶ֔מֶר

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

Where the word stands

Four of the word's sixteen uses are in Leviticus.

The other 30 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

  • wool5
  • the wool3
  • like the wool2
  • wool my2
  • and like the wool1
  • and of the wool1
  • and wool of1
  • in the wool1

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.

צֶמֶדtsemedpairUses15

All 16, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

14 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

  • צֶ֔מֶר2
  • צַמְרִ֣י2
  • בַּצֶּ֙מֶר֙1
  • הַצֶּ֖מֶר1
  • הַצֶּ֣מֶר1
  • הַצֶּ֣מֶר׀1
  • וְכַצֶּ֖מֶר1
  • וְלַצָּ֑מֶר1
  • וְצֶ֥מֶר1
  • כַּצֶּ֥מֶר1
  • כַּצָּ֑מֶר1
  • צֶ֥מֶר1

and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine singular5HNcmsa
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular3HRd/Ncmsa
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular3HTd/Ncmsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular2HC/Rd/Ncmsa
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2HNcmsc/Sp1bs
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncmsc

Leviticus

four uses
  • If any fabric is contaminated with mildew—any wool or linen garment,

    Leviticus 13:47

    • צֶ֔מֶרtzemernoun · masculine singulartagged: wool
  • any weave or knit of linen or wool, or any article of leather—

    Leviticus 13:48

    • וְלַצָּ֑מֶרvelatzamerconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and of the wool
  • He is to burn the fabric, weave, or knit, whether the contaminated item is wool or linen or leather. Since the mildew is harmful, the article must be burned up.

    Leviticus 13:52

    • בַּצֶּ֙מֶר֙batzemerpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wool
  • This is the law concerning a mildew contamination in wool or linen fabric, weave, or knit, or any leather article, for pronouncing it clean or unclean.”

    Leviticus 13:59

    • הַצֶּ֣מֶר׀hatzemerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wool

Deuteronomy

one use
  • Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.

    Deuteronomy 22:11

    • צֶ֥מֶרtzemernoun · masculine singulartagged: wool

Judges

one use
  • then behold, I will place a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece and all the ground is dry, then I will know that You are going to save Israel by my hand, as You have said.”

    Judges 6:37

    • הַצֶּ֖מֶרhatzemerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wool

2 Kings

one use
  • Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder, and he would render to the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs and the wool of a hundred thousand rams.

    2 Kings 3:4

    • צָֽמֶר׃tzamernoun · masculine singulartagged: wool

Psalms

one use
  • He spreads the snow like wool; He scatters the frost like ashes;

    Psalms 147:16

    • כַּצָּ֑מֶרkatzamerpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the wool

Proverbs

one use
  • She selects wool and flax and works with eager hands.

    Proverbs 31:13

    • צֶ֣מֶרtzemernoun · masculine singulartagged: wool

Isaiah

two uses
  • “Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.

    Isaiah 1:18

    • כַּצֶּ֥מֶרkatzemerpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the wool
  • For the moth will devour them like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool. But My righteousness will last forever, My salvation through all generations.”

    Isaiah 51:8

    • וְכַצֶּ֖מֶרvekhatzemerconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and like the wool

Ezekiel

three uses
  • Because of your many products and your great wealth of goods, Damascus traded with you wine from Helbon, wool from Zahar,

    Ezekiel 27:18

    • וְצֶ֥מֶרvetzemerconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and wool of
  • You eat the fat, wear the wool, and butcher the fattened sheep, but you do not feed the flock.

    Ezekiel 34:3

    • הַצֶּ֣מֶרhatzemerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wool
  • When they enter the gates of the inner court, they are to wear linen garments; they must not wear anything made of wool when they minister at the gates of the inner court or inside the temple.

    Ezekiel 44:17

    • צֶ֔מֶרtzemernoun · masculine singulartagged: wool

Hosea

two uses
  • For their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me bread and water, wool and linen, oil and drink.’

    Hosea 2:5

    • צַמְרִ֣יtzamrinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: wool my
  • Therefore I will take back My grain in its time and My new wine in its season; I will take away My wool and linen, which were given to cover her nakedness.

    Hosea 2:9

    • צַמְרִ֣יtzamrinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: wool my

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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