צְמָרִי
Tsᵉmârîy · tsem-aw-ree'
a Tsemarite or branch of the Canaanites
Lexicon
Derivation: patrial from an unused name of a place in Palestine;
a Tsemarite or branch of the Canaanites
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Zemarite.
Letters
- צTsade90
Picture: a person lying on their side (or a fish hook)
- Concrete
- hook · trail · side · a man bowed
- Extended
- to hunt · to pursue · need · righteousness as a straight path
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to pursue the straight path › water, chaos, the mighty deep › the head, the highest › the hand that works
To pursue the straight path of water, chaos, the mighty deep of the head, the highest of the hand that works.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of צְמָרִי above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
2 occurrences · 2 OT · 0 NT · 1 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and the zemarite2 · 100%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.