צֶאֱלִים

«צֶאֱלִים» in the Tanakh dictionary: lotus — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

Used: 2 times · Key: 6628 · BDB: צֶאֱלִים

Glosses

thorny.lotus.plants (2)

Meaning (OSHB)

lotus tree →

Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m.pl. lotus tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.m.pl. a kind of lotus (Rhamnus (more exactly Zizyphus), Lotus [Linn.], thorny lotus (not sacred Nymphaea Lotus); Saad. ضَالٌ, cf. AW De Job 2, Syriac ܥܳܐܠܴܐ, v. Löwp. 275);—Jb 40:21, 22.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

Trees and pragmatics

Every English meaning of «צֶאֱלִים» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

In the verses

Job 40:21

תַּֽחַת־צֶאֱלִ֥ים יִשְׁכָּ֑ב בְּסֵ֖תֶר קָנֶ֣ה וּבִצָּֽה׃

Word for word: under thorny.lotus.plants it.lies in a.hiding.place of.reed[s] and swamp

JPS 1917: He lieth under the lotus-trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.

Job 40:22

יְסֻכֻּ֣הוּ צֶאֱלִ֣ים צִֽלֲל֑וֹ יְ֝סֻבּ֗וּהוּ עַרְבֵי־נָֽחַל׃

Word for word: they cover.it thorny.lotus.plants shade its they surround.it [the].poplars of.[the].wadi

JPS 1917: The lotus-trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.

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