King James Bible
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STRONGS NUMBER H6643
Transliteration: tsbiy
Phonetic Spelling: (tseb-ee')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: beauty, honor
Meaning: splendor, a gazelle
Word Summary
tsbiy: beauty, honor
Original Word: צְבִיTransliteration: tsbiy
Phonetic Spelling: (tseb-ee')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: beauty, honor
Meaning: splendor, a gazelle
Strong's Concordance
beautifulty, glorious, goodly, pleasant, roebuck From tsabah in the sense of prominence; splendor (as conspicuous); also a gazelle (as beautiful) -- beautiful(-ty), glorious, goodly, pleasant, roe(-buck).
see HEBREW tsabah
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H6643. tsbiy
I. צְבִי noun masculine2 Samuel 1:19 beauty, honour; — absolute ׳צ 1:19 +, צֶבִ֑י Daniel 8:9; construct צְבִי Isaiah 13:19 +; plural construct צִבְאוֺת Jeremiah 3:19 (so ᵑ7 Ki Thes Hi Gf Ol § 145 b Köii.l, 584 and others; > from ᵑ6 צבא Gie and others); —
1. a. beauty, decoration, ׳צ עֶדְיוֺ, of silver and gold Ezekiel 7:20, of products of soil Isaiah 4:2 (predict.)
b. elsewhere in figure: of drunkard's chaplet, ׳צ תִפְאַרְתּוֺ Isaiah 28:1, 4 (figurative of Samaria); צ ׳עֲטֶרֶת 28:5 (of ׳י); ׳הַצּ 2 Samuel 1:19 (Saul and Jonathan); כָּלצֿ ׳גְּאוֺן, of Tyre Isaiah 23:9; ׳צ מַמְלָכוֺת 13:19 (of Babylonian ); of land of Israel (Judah), לְכָלהָֿאֲרָצוֺת הִיא צְבִי Ezekiel 20:6, 15, צִבְאוֺת צְבִי נַחֲלַת גּוֺיִם 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 הַצּ ׳אֶרֶץ 11:16, 41 (see Dr), צ קֹֿרֶשׁ׳הַר 11:45(i.e. temple-hill); of cities of Moab, ׳צ אֶרֶץ Ezekiel 25:9.
2 = honour, ׳צ דִּיק׳לַצּ Isaiah 24:16. — Ezekiel 26:20 read בִי׳וְתִתְיַצְּ for צְבִי וְנָתַתִּי, so Lxx Co Berthol Toy Krae and others
III. צבה (√ of following; Late Hebrew צְבִיָה צְבִי, = Biblical Hebrew; so Assyrian ƒabîtu, Arabic Aramaic טַבְיָה ).
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. v.12:8), צְבָאוֺת Song of Solomon 2:7; 3:5; — gazelle, allowed as food Deuteronomy 14:5, compare 12:15, 22 (although not for sacrifice, Dr; all + אַיָּל), so 15:22 (+ יַחְמוּר אַיָּל,, 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 Song of Solomon 2:9, 17; 8:14 (compare JacobArab. Dichter iv. 20 f.); hence used in adjuration 2:7; 3:5 ( + אילות); ׳צ מֻדָּח Isaiah 13:14, simile of fugitives.