צְבִי tsevi
Hebrew word for “beauty” · Strong’s H6643 · used 33 times in 32 verses
Meaning
1) beauty, glory, honour; 1a) beauty, decoration; 1b) honour
Senses in the lexicon
- beauty (19)
- gazelle (14)
How it is translated
Glosses given for tsevi in context, with how often each is used:
- beauty 15
- gazelle 6
- splendor 3
- gazelles 3
- like gazelle 2
- like a gazelle 2
- beauties 1
- like gazelles 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isaiah | 8 | 0.5 | |
| Song of Solomon | 5 | 4.0 | |
| Ezekiel | 5 | 0.3 | |
| Deuteronomy | 4 | 0.3 | |
| Daniel | 4 | 0.7 | |
| 2 Samuel | 2 | 0.2 | |
| Jeremiah | 2 | 0.1 | |
| 1 Kings | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 1 Chronicles | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Proverbs | 1 | 0.1 |
Chapters where it is used most
Song of Solomon 2 (3), Isaiah 28 (3), Daniel 11 (3), Deuteronomy 12 (2), Isaiah 13 (2), Ezekiel 20 (2), Deuteronomy 14 (1), Deuteronomy 15 (1), 2 Samuel 1 (1), 2 Samuel 2 (1)
Forms
- צבי 12
- הצבי 5
- לצבי 4
- כצבי 4
- וצבי 3
- בצבאות 2
- צבאות 1
- הצבים 1
- וכצבאים 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with tsevi more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- אַיָּל ayyal “deer” 8
- תִּפְאָרָה tipharah “beauty” 5
- עֹפֶר opher “fawn” 3
- גָּאוֹן gaon “pride” 4
- אוֹ o “or” 5
- דָּמָה damah “to resemble” 3
- יַחְמוּר yachmur “roebuck” 2
- דּוֹד dod “beloved” 3
- טָמֵא tame “unclean” 3
- טָהוֹר tahor “pure” 3
- הַר har “mountain” 4
- אַיָּלָה ayyalah “doe” 2
Key verses
The verses using tsevi that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- 2 Samuel 2:18 — And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe.
- Isaiah 4:2 — In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of…
- Isaiah 13:19 — And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
- Isaiah 23:9 — The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
- Isaiah 24:16 — From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous…
- Isaiah 28:1 — Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are…
- Jeremiah 3:19 — But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me,…
- Ezekiel 7:20 — As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have…
- Ezekiel 20:6 — In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey,…
- Ezekiel 20:15 — Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which…
- Ezekiel 26:20 — When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places…
- Daniel 11:45 — And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
See all 32 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.