צָמַת
tsâmath · tsaw-math'
to extirpate (literally or figuratively)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to extirpate (literally or figuratively)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: consume, cut off, destroy, vanish.
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
- תTav400
Picture: a crossed mark
- Concrete
- mark · sign · cross · signature
- Extended
- a covenant · to seal · to sign · the end · monument
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to pursue the straight path › water, chaos, the mighty deep › the mark, the covenant sign
To pursue the straight path of water, chaos, the mighty deep of the mark, the covenant sign.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of צָמַת 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
15 occurrences · 15 OT · 0 NT · 15 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- that i might destroy2 · 13%
- they vanish1 · 7%
- because i was not cut off1 · 7%
- cut them off1 · 7%
- they that would destroy1 · 7%
- thou hast destroyed1 · 7%
- have cut me off1 · 7%
- and shall cut them off1 · 7%
- shall cut them off1 · 7%
- him will i cut off1 · 7%
- destroy1 · 7%
- hath consumed1 · 7%
- cut off1 · 7%
- they have cut off1 · 7%
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.