צַח
bright
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H6703 appears in the Book of Jeremiah — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Jeremiah
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.
“bright” is the headline sense of the Hebrew adjective צח (tsach). A scarce word — 4 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. It clusters heavily in Isaiah, which alone accounts for 50% of its uses. Scripture first uses it in Song of Solomon 5:10. From the same root come צחח, צחיח and צחצחה. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6703 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 →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,696
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,696 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Isaiah 2 verses 50%
- Song of Solomon 1 verse 25%
- Jeremiah 1 verse 25%
By section of the Old Testament
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 4 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 3 verses · 75%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 25%
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: Dry 1×, Is white 1×, Like a clear 1×
- American Standard Version: Hot 1×, Is white 1×, Like clear 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Clearly 1×, Is dazzling 1×, Like shimmering 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Clearly 1×, Glowing 1×, Is shimmering 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6703 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6703 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6703 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6703 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- dazzling, glowing, clear, bright
Word origin
adj. dazzling, glowing, clear;—חֹם צַת Is 18:4 glowing heat; רוּחַ צַח Je 4:11 glowing wind; דּוֹדִי צַח וְאָדוֹם Ct 5:10 my beloved is dazzling (white) and ruddy (cf. La 4:7); fpl. לְדַבֵּר צַחוֹת Is 32:4 to speak clear (words), clearly.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from צחח (tsâchach) (H6705) — to glow.
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.
צַח
- 1. bright, resplendent. Cant. R. to V, 10 (ref. to צח ואדום ib.) צח לי … ואדום וכ׳ bright (propitious) to me (Israel) in Egypt, but red (threatening) to the Egyptians; ib. [read:] צח לי בים … ואדום למצרים בים; ib. צח לי בעו"הב ואדום לי בעוה"ז; Yalk. Cant. 988 (corr. acc.). Yalk. Sam. 109 (play on צ̇ל̇צ̇ח̇, I Sam. X, 2) צ̇ח̇ צ̇ל̇ יום bright is the shadow of the day (of Saul); צ̇ח̇ צ̇ל̇ של זקן ומלכים וכ׳ bright was the shade (declining day) of the patriarch (to whom it was said at Bethel), ‘and kings shall proceed from thee’ (Gen. XXXV, 11); Midr. Sam. ch. XIV צלצח של הזקן (read: צ̇ל̇צ̇ח̇ צ̇ח̇ צ̇ל̇ וכ׳).—2) brightness. Ib. צלצח כצַחוֹ של יום (read: צֵל צַח) a shade bright as the brightness of the (full) day. e.g. 1 Samuel 10:2
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 3 distinct written forms H6703 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| צַח֙ | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 18:4 | 2 |
| צַ֤ח | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 4:11 | 1 |
| צָחֽוֹת | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Isaiah 32:4 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6703, 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
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 4 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 4 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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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
