Numbers 7:3:6Num.7.3.W6TAB

צָב֙

tsav

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Transliteration
tsav
Extended
tsaav
IPA
/tsav/

Meaning by language

English
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Alphabet Analysis

Tsadets as in cats
Qametslong 'ah'
Betb with dagesh; v without dagesh

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Word in context

  1. word

    tsav

  2. phraseyour reading level

    shesh-eg-LOT tsav

  3. clause

    va-ya-vi-U et-kar-ba-NAM lif-NEI Ye-ho-VAH shesh-eg-LOT tsav ush-NEI a-SAR ba-KAR a-ga-LAH al-shnei han-ne-si-IM ve-SHOR le-e-KHAD

  4. sentence

    va-ya-vi-U et-kar-ba-NAM lif-NEI Ye-ho-VAH shesh-eg-LOT tsav ush-NEI a-SAR ba-KAR a-ga-LAH al-shnei han-ne-si-IM ve-SHOR le-e-KHAD va-ya-kri-VOO o-TAM lif-NEI ham-mish-KAN

Exegesis

The coordinated cardinal expressions šēš-ʿeglōṯ ṣāḇ {שֵׁשׁ־עֶגְלֹת צָב | šēš-ʿeglōṯ ṣāḇ} ‘six covered wagons’ and wə-šənē ʿāsār bāqār {וּשְׁנֵי עָשָׂר בָּקָר | wə-šənē ʿāsār bāqār} ‘twelve oxen’ utilize numerals in construct to specify the offerings.

In contextNumbers 7:3

And they brought their offering before the LORD , six covered wagons and twelve oxen—a wagon for every two leaders and an ox for each. They presented them before the tabernacle.

About this coordinate

Numbers 7:3:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Numbers 7:3, so the Hebrew word צָב֙ (tsav) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Num.7.3.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.7.3.W6.S1) and character.