צִי
Used: 6 times · Key: lemma:צִי · BDB: צִי²
Glosses
desert-dwellers (6)
Meaning (OSHB)
a wild beast tree →
Meaning (BDB 1906)
n.m. desert-dweller or crier, yelper tree →
The whole BDB entry
n.m. Je 50:39 a wild beast, proposes either desert-dweller (denom. from צִיָּה, so most), or crier, yelper (√* צוה = ضوى [yelp, Dozy], BaNB 188, cf. Ew§ 146 g, note);—in any case a specif. animal, but not certainly identif.; BoHieroz. i, lib. 3, § 14, cp. Arabic ضَيْوَنٌ wild cat;—pl. צִיִּים Is 13:21 (f. אִיִּים v 22), 23:13; 34:14 (+ אִיִּים), Je 50:39 (id.; all betokening desolation); לְעַם לְצ׳ ψ 74:14 (read לְעַם צ׳ Hup-Now Bae); appar. of people 72:9, but prob. corrupt, Ol conj. צָרִים (‖ אֹיְבָיו), and so most moderns.
Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)
Trees and pragmatics
Every English meaning of «צִי» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.
In the verses
לְ֭פָנָיו יִכְרְע֣וּ צִיִּ֑ים וְ֝אֹיְבָ֗יו עָפָ֥ר יְלַחֵֽכוּ׃
Word for word: before him they.will.bow.down desert-dwellers and enemies his dust they.will.lick.up
JPS 1917: Let them that dwell in the wilderness bow before him; and his enemies lick the dust.
אַתָּ֣ה רִ֭צַּצְתָּ רָאשֵׁ֣י לִוְיָתָ֑ן תִּתְּנֶ֥נּוּ מַ֝אֲכָ֗ל לְעָ֣ם לְצִיִּֽים׃
Word for word: you you.crushed the.heads of.Leviathan you gave.it food to a.people to desert-dwellers
JPS 1917: Thou didst crush the heads of leviathan, Thou gavest him to be food to the folk inhabiting the wilderness.
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