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Lexicon :: Strong's H6776 - ṣemeḏ

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צֶמֶד
Transliteration
ṣemeḏ
Pronunciation
tseh'-med
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
A yoke or team (ie pair)
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TWOT Reference: 1927a

Strong’s Definitions

צֶמֶד tsemed, tseh'-med; a yoke or team (i.e. pair); hence, an acre (i.e. day's task for a yoke of cattle to plough)—acre, couple, × together, two (donkeys), yoke (of oxen).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 15x

The KJV translates Strong's H6776 in the following manner: yoke (7x), couple (4x), two (2x), together (1x), acres (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 15x
The KJV translates Strong's H6776 in the following manner: yoke (7x), couple (4x), two (2x), together (1x), acres (1x).

  1. couple, pair, team, yoke

    1. couple, pair, span (usually of animals)

    2. acre

      1. the amount of land a span of oxen could plow in one day

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
צֶמֶד tsemed, tseh'-med; a yoke or team (i.e. pair); hence, an acre (i.e. day's task for a yoke of cattle to plough)—acre, couple, × together, two (donkeys), yoke (of oxen).
STRONGS H6776: Abbreviations
† צֶ֫מֶד noun masculine 1 Kings 19:19 couple, pair; — צ׳ construct Judges 19:3 +; suffix צִמְדּוֺ Jeremiah 51:23; plural צְמָדִים 1 Kings 19:19; 2 Kings 9:25 (but see below); construct צִמְדֵּי Isaiah 5:10 (Ges§ 93m); —
1. couple, pair, usually of animals, חֲמֹרִים צ׳ Judges 19:3, 10; 2 Samuel 16:1; בָּקָר (הַ) צ׳ span of oxen 1 Samuel 11:7; 1 Kings 19:21, plural of more than one span 1 Kings 19:19 (ploughing), Job 1:3; Job 42:12; פְּרָדִים צֶמֶד 2 Kings 5:17; פָּרָשִׁים צ׳ Isaiah 21:7, 9 a pair of horsemen; plural also of one pair of riders 2 Kings 9:25 (but read probably צֶמֶד, so Kit); צ׳ alone = span (of oxen) Jeremiah 51:23.
2. a measure of land (only square measure in OT) like acre; originally apparently what a span can plough (in a day; see NowArchaeology i. 202 BenzArchaeology 208; compare modern faddan, = what, can be ploughed in a season SchumacherZPV xii (1889), 163 f., Across Jordan 22, or in a day BergheimPEQ, 1894, 192, Ency. Bib.ACRE), שָׂדֶה צ׳ 1 Samuel 14:14 (on text see Dr HPS); צִמְדֵּיכֶֿרֶם Isaiah 5:10.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Judges

19:3; 19:3; 19:10

1 Samuel

11:7; 14:14

2 Samuel

16:1

1 Kings

19:19; 19:19; 19:19; 19:21

2 Kings

5:17; 9:25; 9:25

Job

1:3; 42:12

Isaiah

5:10; 5:10; 21:7; 21:9

Jeremiah

51:23; 51:23

H6776

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6776 matches the Hebrew צֶמֶד (ṣemeḏ),
which occurs 15 times in 15 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:3 - Then her husband arose and went after her to speak kindly and tenderly to her in order to bring her back, taking with him his servant and a pair of donkeys. So she brought him into her father’s house, and when the father of the girl saw him, he was happy to meet him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:10 -

But the man was not willing to stay the night; so he got up and left and came to a place opposite Jebus (that is Jerusalem). With him were two saddled donkeys [and his servant] and his concubine.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:7 - He took a team of oxen and cut them in pieces, and sent them throughout the territory of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, “Whoever does not come out to follow Saul and Samuel, the same shall be done to his oxen.” Then fear of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out [united] as one man [with one purpose].

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:14 - That first slaughter which Jonathan and his armor bearer made was about twenty men within about half a [plow] furrow in a plot of land [the area of which a yoke of oxen could plow in a day].

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:1 -

When David was a little past the summit [of the Mount of Olives], behold, Ziba, the servant of [fn]Mephibosheth, met him with a team of saddled donkeys, and on them were two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred clusters of raisins, a hundred summer fruits, and a [fn]jug of wine.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:19 -

So Elijah departed from there and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, while he was plowing with twelve pairs of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth. Elijah went over to him and threw his mantle (coat) on him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:21 - So Elisha left him and went back. Then he took a pair of oxen and sacrificed them and boiled their meat with the implements of the oxen [as fuel], and gave the meat to the people, and they ate. Then he stood and followed Elijah, and served him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:17 - Naaman said, “If not, then please, let your servant be given a load of [fn]earth for a team of mules; for [from this day on] your servant will no longer offer a burnt offering nor a sacrifice to other gods, but only to the LORD, [the God of Israel].

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:25 - Then Jehu said to Bidkar his officer, “Pick him up and throw him on the property of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for I remember when you and I were riding together after his father Ahab, that the LORD uttered this prophecy against him:

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:3 - He also possessed 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke (pairs) of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very great number of servants, so that this man was the greatest [and wealthiest and most respected] of all the men of the east (northern Arabia).

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 42:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:12 - And the LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; for he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:10 -

“For ten [fn]acres of vineyard will yield [only] [fn]one bath of wine,

And a homer ([fn]six bushels) of seed will produce [only] one ephah of grain.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:7 -

“When he sees a chariot, horsemen in pairs,

A train of donkeys and a train of camels,

Let him pay attention and listen closely, very closely.”

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“Now look! Here comes a troop of riders, horsemen in pairs.”

And one said, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon;

And all the carved images of her gods are shattered on the ground.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:23 -

With you I shatter the shepherd and his flock,

With you I shatter the farmer and his yoke of oxen,

And with you I shatter governors and commanders.

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