צִנָּה
tsinnâh · tsin-naw'
a hook (as pointed); also a (large) shield (as if guarding by prickliness); also cold (as piercing)
Lexicon
Derivation: feminine of H6791 (צֵן);
a hook (as pointed); also a (large) shield (as if guarding by prickliness); also cold (as piercing)
- a hook (as pointed)
- also, a (large) shield (as if guarding by prickliness)
- also, cold (as piercing)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: buckler, cold, hook, shield, target.
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
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to pursue the straight path › the seed, life continuing › to reveal, behold
To pursue the straight path of the seed, life continuing that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of צִנָּה 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
22 occurrences · 22 OT · 0 NT · 15 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- targets3 · 14%
- target2 · 9%
- shield2 · 9%
- and shield2 · 9%
- a shield1 · 5%
- the shield1 · 5%
- and with them with shield1 · 5%
- he put shields1 · 5%
- him as with a shield1 · 5%
- and buckler1 · 5%
- shall be thy shield1 · 5%
- as the cold1 · 5%
- against thee buckler1 · 5%
- the buckler1 · 5%
- with bucklers1 · 5%
- and the bucklers1 · 5%
- with hooks1 · 5%
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.