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זָוִית

corner

H2106 Strong's Hebrew
zâvîyth Transliteration
/zaw-veeth'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 2 appearances

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About this entry

At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.

At its core, זוית (zâvîyth) means “corner.” With only 2 verses it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. The word gravitates to Psalms (50%), then Zechariah. Scripture first uses it in Psalms 144:12. It clusters with זו, זיו and זית under a shared root. Dig into 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
corner
Modern gloss
corner
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's H2106 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →

2
distinct verses
The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
2 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
Psalms 144:12
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Psalms 144:12.
Zechariah 9:15
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Zechariah 9:15.
#4,807
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 0 · 0%
  • Historical 0 · 0%
  • Wisdom 1 · 50%
  • Prophets 1 · 50%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.

  • Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 50%
  • Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 50%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Corners 1×, May be as corner stones 1×
  • American Standard Version: Corner-stones 1×, Like the corners 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Like corner pillars 1×, Like the corners 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Like corner pillars 1×, Like the corners 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H2106 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Corners” 1×
  • “May be as corner stones” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H2106 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Corner-stones” 1×
  • “Like the corners” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H2106 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Like corner pillars” 1×
  • “Like the corners” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H2106 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Like corner pillars” 1×
  • “Like the corners” 1×

Senses in BDB

The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. corner

Word origin

n.m. issue (Arabic ذَوْبٌ fluid, liquid; NH זוֹב, Aramaic דּוֹבָא in specif. sense of Heb.);—issue, flux, always from genitals (cf. Di Lv 15:2); only P: of man or woman Lv 15:33;—of man Lv 15:2, 3, 3(×2), 13, 15; of woman Lv 15:19 (דָּם יִהְיֶה זֹבָהּ בִּבְשָׂרָהּ, of monthly period); also v 25(×2), 26, 28, 30 (of morbid issue of blood, sometimes connected with the other; cf. Mat 9:20 etc.)

— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.

Derived from זו (Ziv) (H2099) — Zif.

Part of speech: Noun Feminine TWOT: 534a


Jastrow Dictionary

A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.

זָוִית

  • v. זָוָוא) joint, angle, corner. Ber. 31ᵃ בז׳ זו in one corner of the room, בז׳ אחרת in another corner; Pes. 10ᵇ.—M. Kat. 18ᵃ מז׳ לז׳ from one corner of the lips to the other (mustaches); a. fr.—קרן ז׳ (the horn of juncture), corner-piece, shelf. Gitt. 13ᵃ צבורין ומונחין בק׳ ז׳ heaped up and ready on the shelf; Kidd. 66ᵃ; a. e.—Pl. זָוִיֹּות. Neg. XII, 3 בשני כתלים בז׳ Mish. ed. (Talm. ed. sing.) on two adjoining walls; Sifra M’tsora, Neg., Par. 7, ch. V.

A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.


Forms in the corpus

The 2 distinct written forms H2106 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.

Form Parsing Example Uses
כְ/זָוִיֹּ֑ת Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute Psalms 144:12 1
כְּ/זָוִיּ֖וֹת Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute Zechariah 9:15 1

Same root — word family

Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2106, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derives from

Shares the same root

Compare all same-root words → 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint verse parallels

This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.

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