STRONGS NUMBER H6628


Word Summary
tseelim: (a kind of) lotus
Original Word: צֶאֶל
Transliteration: tseelim
Phonetic Spelling: (tseh'-el)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: (a kind of) lotus
Meaning: (a kind of) lotus
Strong's Concordance
shady tree

From an unused root meaning to be slender; the lotus tree -- shady tree.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H6628. tseelim

צֶאֱלִיםnoun masculine plural a kind of lotus (Rhamnus (more exactly Zizyphus), Lotus [Linn.], thorny lotus (not sacred Nymphea Lotus; Saad , compare AW DeJob 2, Syriac , see Löwp. 275); — Job 40:21-22,.

צאן‎ (√ of following; DlPr 87 f.; HWB compare Assyrian ƒênu, adjective, good, docile; Thes (compare LagBN 136) compare יָצָא‎ [as πρόβατον from προβαίνω]; Assyrian ƒênu, = Biblical Hebrew צאֹן‎, and so Late Hebrew id., MI31 צאן‎; Arabic ; id.; Tel Amarna ƒunu is Canaanitish according to ZimZA vi (1891). 156; Aramaic עָנָא‎, , and perhaps Palmyrene ענא‎).