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 39Old Testament books
- 14spellings
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.
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| צֶמֶד | tsemed | pair | Uses15 |
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,
- צֶ֔מֶרtzemernoun · masculine singulartagged: wool
any weave or knit of linen or wool, or any article of leather—
- 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.
- 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.”
- הַצֶּ֣מֶר׀hatzemerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wool
Deuteronomy
one use
Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.
- 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.”
- 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.
- צָֽמֶר׃tzamernoun · masculine singulartagged: wool
Psalms
one use
He spreads the snow like wool; He scatters the frost like ashes;
- כַּצָּ֑מֶרkatzamerpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the wool
Proverbs
one use
She selects wool and flax and works with eager hands.
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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,
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.’
- 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.
- צַמְרִ֣יtzamrinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: wool my
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.
