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Lexicon :: Strong's H6643 - ṣᵊḇî

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צְבִי
Transliteration
ṣᵊḇî
Pronunciation
tseb-ee'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From צָבָה (H6638) in the sense of prominence
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 1869a,1870a

Strong’s Definitions

צְבִי tsᵉbîy, tseb-ee'; from H6638 in the sense of prominence; splendor (as conspicuous):—beautiful(-ty), glorious (-ry), goodly, pleasant, roe(-buck).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 32x

The KJV translates Strong's H6643 in the following manner: roe (9x), roebuck (5x), glory (8x), glorious (6x), beautiful (1x), beauty (1x), goodly (1x), pleasant (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 32x
The KJV translates Strong's H6643 in the following manner: roe (9x), roebuck (5x), glory (8x), glorious (6x), beautiful (1x), beauty (1x), goodly (1x), pleasant (1x).

  1. beauty, glory, honour

    1. beauty, decoration

    2. honour

  2. roebuck, gazelle

    1. perhaps an extinct animal, exact meaning unknown

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
צְבִי tsᵉbîy, tseb-ee'; from H6638 in the sense of prominence; splendor (as conspicuous):—beautiful(-ty), glorious (-ry), goodly, pleasant, roe(-buck).
STRONGS H6643: Abbreviations
† I. צְבִי noun masculine 2 Samuel 1:19 beauty, honour; — absolute צ׳ 2 Samuel 1:19 +, צֶבִ֑י Daniel 8:9; construct צְבִי Isaiah 13:19 +; plural construct צִבְאוֺת Jeremiah 3:19 (so Targum Ki Thes Hi Gf Ol § 145 b Köii. l, 584 and others; > from צבא Syriac Version Gie and others); —
1.
a. beauty, decoration, עֶדְיוֺ צ׳, of silver and gold Ezekiel 7:20, of products of soil Isaiah 4:2 (predict.)
b. elsewhere in figure: of drunkard's chaplet, תִפְאַרְתּוֺ צ׳ Isaiah 28:1, 4 (figurative of Samaria); עֲטֶרֶת צ׳ Isaiah 28:5 (of י׳); הַצּ׳ 2 Samuel 1:19 (Saul and Jonathan); גְּאוֺן כָּלצֿ׳, of Tyre Isaiah 23:9; מַמְלָכוֺת צ׳ Isaiah 13:19 (of Babylonian); of land of Israel (Judah), צְבִי הִיא לְכָלהָֿאֲרָצוֺת Ezekiel 20:6, 15, גּוֺיִם נַחֲלַת צְבִי צִבְאוֺת Jeremiah 3:19 (see above) heritage of the beauty of beauties of the nations, i.e. most beauteous heritage; הַצּ׳ especially of Jerusalem and temple Daniel 8:9 (Bev), compare אֶרֶץ הַצּ׳ Daniel 11:16, 41 (see Dr), קֹֿרֶשׁ הַר צ׳ Daniel 11:45(i.e. temple-hill); of cities of Moab, אֶרֶץ צ׳ Ezekiel 25:9.
2. = honour, דִּיק לַצּ׳ צ׳ Isaiah 24:16. — Ezekiel 26:20 read בִי וְתִתְיַצְּ׳ for וְנָתַתִּי צְבִי, so Lxx Co Berthol Toy Krae and others

† II. צְבִי noun masculineIsaiah 13:14 gazelle; — צ׳ absolute Deuteronomy 12:15 +; plural צְבָיִם 2 Samuel 2:18, צְבָאיִם 1 Chronicles 12:9 (Gi Baer; van d. H. 1 Chronicles 12:8), צְבָאוֺת Songs 2:7; Songs 3:5; — gazelle, allowed as food Deuteronomy 14:5, compare Deuteronomy 12:15, 22 (although not for sacrifice, Dr; all + אַיָּל), so Deuteronomy 15:22 (+ אַיָּל, יַחְמוּר, etc.), see 1 Kings 5:3; simile of swiftness 2 Samuel 2:18; 1 Chronicles 12:9 see above, Proverbs 6:5; of grace and beauty Songs 2:9, 17; Songs 8:14 (compare JacobArab. Dichter iv. 20 f.); hence used in adjuration Songs 2:7; Songs 3:5 (+ אילות); מֻדָּח צ׳ Isaiah 13:14, simile of fugitives.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Deuteronomy

12:15; 12:15; 12:22; 14:5; 15:22

2 Samuel

1:19; 1:19; 1:19; 2:18; 2:18

1 Kings

5:3

1 Chronicles

12:8; 12:9; 12:9

Proverbs

6:5

Song of Songs

2:7; 2:7; 2:9; 2:17; 3:5; 3:5; 8:14

Isaiah

4:2; 13:14; 13:14; 13:19; 13:19; 23:9; 24:16; 28:1; 28:4; 28:5

Jeremiah

3:19; 3:19

Ezekiel

7:20; 20:6; 20:15; 25:9; 26:20

Daniel

8:9; 8:9; 11:16; 11:41; 11:45

H6643

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Strong's Number H6643 matches the Hebrew צְבִי (ṣᵊḇî),
which occurs 32 times in 32 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:15 - “But you may butcher your animals and eat their meat in any town whenever you want. You may freely eat the animals with which the LORD your God blesses you. All of you, whether ceremonially clean or unclean, may eat that meat, just as you now eat gazelle and deer.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:22 - Anyone, whether ceremonially clean or unclean, may eat that meat, just as you do now with gazelle and deer.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:5 - the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the addax, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:22 - Instead, use it for food for your family in your hometown. Anyone, whether ceremonially clean or unclean, may eat it, just as anyone may eat a gazelle or deer.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 1:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:19 - Your pride and joy, O Israel, lies dead on the hills!
Oh, how the mighty heroes have fallen!

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:18 - Joab, Abishai, and Asahel—the three sons of Zeruiah—were among David’s forces that day. Asahel could run like a gazelle,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 4:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:23 - also 10 oxen from the fattening pens, 20 pasture-fed cattle, 100 sheep or goats, as well as deer, gazelles, roe deer, and choice poultry.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 12:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:8 - Some brave and experienced warriors from the tribe of Gad also defected to David while he was at the stronghold in the wilderness. They were expert with both shield and spear, as fierce as lions and as swift as deer on the mountains.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:5 - Save yourself like a gazelle escaping from a hunter,
like a bird fleeing from a net.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:7 - Promise me, O women of Jerusalem,
by the gazelles and wild deer,
not to awaken love until the time is right.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:9 - My lover is like a swift gazelle
or a young stag.
Look, there he is behind the wall,
looking through the window,
peering into the room.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:17 - Before the dawn breezes blow
and the night shadows flee,
return to me, my love, like a gazelle
or a young stag on the rugged mountains.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:5 - Promise me, O women of Jerusalem,
by the gazelles and wild deer,
not to awaken love until the time is right.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:14 - Young Woman
Come away, my love! Be like a gazelle
or a young stag on the mountains of spices.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 4:2 - But in that day, the branch[fn] of the LORD
will be beautiful and glorious;
the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory
of all who survive in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 13:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:14 - Everyone in Babylon will run about like a hunted gazelle,
like sheep without a shepherd.
They will try to find their own people
and flee to their own land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 13:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:19 - Babylon, the most glorious of kingdoms,
the flower of Chaldean pride,
will be devastated like Sodom and Gomorrah
when God destroyed them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 23:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:9 - The LORD of Heaven’s Armies has done it
to destroy your pride
and bring low all earth’s nobility.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 24:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:16 - We hear songs of praise from the ends of the earth,
songs that give glory to the Righteous One!
But my heart is heavy with grief.
Weep for me, for I wither away.
Deceit still prevails,
and treachery is everywhere.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 28:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:1 - What sorrow awaits the proud city of Samaria—
the glorious crown of the drunks of Israel.[fn]
It sits at the head of a fertile valley,
but its glorious beauty will fade like a flower.
It is the pride of a people
brought down by wine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 28:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:4 - It sits at the head of a fertile valley,
but its glorious beauty will fade like a flower.
Whoever sees it will snatch it up,
as an early fig is quickly picked and eaten.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 28:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:5 - Then at last the LORD of Heaven’s Armies
will himself be Israel’s glorious crown.
He will be the pride and joy
of the remnant of his people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 3:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:19 - “I thought to myself,
‘I would love to treat you as my own children!’
I wanted nothing more than to give you this beautiful land—
the finest possession in the world.
I looked forward to your calling me ‘Father,’
and I wanted you never to turn from me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:20 - They were proud of their beautiful jewelry
and used it to make detestable idols and vile images.
Therefore, I will make all their wealth
disgusting to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:6 - I took a solemn oath that day that I would bring them out of Egypt to a land I had discovered and explored for them—a good land, a land flowing with milk and honey, the best of all lands anywhere.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:15 - But I took a solemn oath against them in the wilderness. I swore I would not bring them into the land I had given them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful place on earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 25:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:9 - I will open up their eastern flank and wipe out their glorious frontier towns—Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 26:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:20 - I will send you to the pit to join those who descended there long ago. Your city will lie in ruins, buried beneath the earth, like those in the pit who have entered the world of the dead. You will have no place of respect here in the land of the living.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:9 - Then from one of the prominent horns came a small horn whose power grew very great. It extended toward the south and the east and toward the glorious land of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 11:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:16 - “The king of the north will march onward unopposed; none will be able to stop him. He will pause in the glorious land of Israel,[fn] intent on destroying it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 11:41

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:41 - He will enter the glorious land of Israel,[fn] and many nations will fall, but Moab, Edom, and the best part of Ammon will escape.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 11:45

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:45 - He will stop between the glorious holy mountain and the sea and will pitch his royal tents. But while he is there, his time will suddenly run out, and no one will help him.
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