צֶמֶד tsemed

Hebrew word for “pair” · Strong’s H6776 · used 15 times in 15 verses

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Meaning

1) couple, pair, team, yoke;

How it is translated

Glosses given for tsemed in context, with how often each is used:

• pair 8
• pairs 4
• acre 1
• acres 1
• team 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Judges 19 (2), 1 Kings 19 (2), Isaiah 21 (2), 1 Samuel 11 (1), 1 Samuel 14 (1), 2 Samuel 16 (1), 2 Kings 5 (1), 2 Kings 9 (1), Job 1 (1), Job 42 (1)

Forms

• צמד 9
• וצמד 2
• צמדים 2
• צמדי 1
• וצמדו 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with tsemed more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• חֲמוֹר chamor “donkey” 4
• בָּקָר baqar “cattle” 4
• גָּמָל gamal “camel” 3
• אַחַר achar “after” 4
• אָתוֹן aton “she-ass” 2
• חָבַשׁ chavash “to saddle/tie” 2
• פָּרָשׁ parash “horseman” 2
• מַשָּׂא massa “burden” 2
• אֵלִיָּה eliyyah “Elijah” 2
• הָלַךְ halakh “to go” 4
• קוּם qum “to arise” 3
• רֶכֶב rekhev “chariot” 2

Key verses

The verses using tsemed that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Judges 19:3 — And her husband arose, and went after her, to speak friendly unto her, and to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple of asses: and she…
• Judges 19:10 — But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against Jebus, which is Jerusalem; and there were with him two asses…
• 1 Samuel 11:7 — And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh…
• 2 Samuel 16:1 — And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two…
• 1 Kings 19:19 — So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by…
• 1 Kings 19:21 — And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and…
• 2 Kings 5:17 — And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be given to thy servant two mules’ burden of earth? for thy servant will henceforth offer neither burnt…
• 2 Kings 9:25 — Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for remember how that, when I and thou rode…
• Job 1:3 — His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household;…
• Job 42:12 — So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen,…
• Isaiah 5:10 — Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
• Isaiah 21:9 — And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her…

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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.