Lexical Summary tsen: perhaps a thorn, barb Original Word: צֵןTransliteration: tsen Phonetic Spelling: (tsane) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: perhaps a thorn, barb Meaning: a thorn, a cactus-hedge Strong's Concordance thorn From an unused root meaning to be prickly; a thorn; hence, a cactus-hedge -- thorn. Brown-Driver-Briggs H6791. tsen [צֵן] noun [masculine] thorn? barb?; — pluralצִנִּים Proverbs 22:5 (+ מַּחִים); וְאֶלמִֿצִּנִּים Job 5:5 from (behind) thorns (a protecting thorn hedge, so Di), but very dubious; CheJQ July, 1897, 576 strike out as doublet of צַמִּים; BevJPhil. xxvi. 305 proposes צִנִּים וְאִנָם [and as to their wealth, barbs (? barbed spears) takeit]. |
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