צְלַח
to prosper
‘to prosper’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
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
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”).
Form
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 2 times (50%)
- Verb, a, Participle Active, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 1 time (25%)
- Verb, a, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 1 time (25%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 4 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H6744 appears — 4 distinct verses across 2 books. 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.
Ezra 2 verses
- Ezra 5:8 וּ/מַצְלַ֥ח conj + a ptcp.act ms Be it known to the king, that we went into the province of Judah, to the house of the great God, which is built with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls; and this work goes on with diligence and prospers in their hands.
- Ezra 6:14 וּ/מַצְלְחִ֔ין conj + a ptcp.act mp The elders of the Jews built and prospered, through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. They built and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the decree of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.
Daniel 2 verses
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.
צלח — transliterated tsᵉlach — is a Hebrew verb carrying the sense “to prosper.” With only 4 verses it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. Its uses cluster heavily in Ezra (50% of all occurrences). It first appears in Ezra 5:8. Its lexical range runs to 3 senses. See the sense tree, 4-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6744 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.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 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 →
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.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 4 verses · 100%
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: Promoted 1×, Prospered 1×, Prospereth 1×
- American Standard Version: Prospered 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Prospered 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Is succeeding 1×, Promoted 1×, Prospered 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6744 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6744 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6744 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6744 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 3 senses 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.
- to prosper
(Aphel)
- to cause to prosper
- show prosperity, be prosperous, have success, be successful
Word origin
Derived from צלח (tsâlach) (H6743) — to prosper.
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.
צָלַח
- (b. h.) [to split, pass through,] to succeed, prosper. Ber. 46ᵃ ויִצְלַח מאוד וכ׳, v. נְכָסִים; a. e.
- 1. same. Ib. 64ᵃ עלה וה׳ he went and succeeded; M. Kat. 29ᵃ. Ab. Zar. 19ᵇ נכסיו מַצְלִיחִין לו his business enterprises will prosper. Y. R. Hash. III, end, 59ᵃ (ref. to Dan. VIII, 12) whenever Israel casts truth to the ground, המלכות … גוזרת ומַצְלַחַת that wicked (Roman) government decrees (persecution) and succeeds; Lam. R. introd. (R. Abba. Midr. Till. to Ps. I, 3 ומַצְלִיחוֹת, v. עֵצָה II; a. fr.—2) to cause to prosper. Sabb. 63ᵃ הקב"ה מַצְלִיחַ להם the Lord helps them to success.—Part. pass. מוּצְלָח; pl. מוּצְלָחִין. Ber. 46ᵃ ויהיו … מוצ׳ (Ms. M. נכסיו מצליחין), v. נְכָסִים; a. e. e.g. Daniel 8:12
צְלַח
- 1. to split, pass through. Targ. I Chr. II, 54. Ib. XI, 18 צ׳ ארחא (h. text ויבקעו).
- 2. to be successful, prosper; to become fit. Targ. Jer. XX, 11. Targ. Prov. XXVIII, 13; a. fr.
- to split. Targ. O. Gen. XXII, 3. Targ. I Chr. XXI, 23.—B. Mets. 79ᵃ נְצַלְּחֵיה לציבי וכ׳ let him chop it into chips and use it. B. Kam. 113ᵇ זבין … לצַלָּחָא bought a palm, in partnership with a gentile, to chop it up (and divide it). Sabb. 119ᵃ רבה … מְצַלְּחֵי וכ׳ Rabbah and R. J. used to chop wood themselves (in preparation for the Sabbath). Ib. 129ᵃ; a. e.
- 1. to pass through; to do a thing successfully; to prosper. Targ. O. Deut. XXVIII, 29. Targ. ib. XXIX, 8 (O. ed. Vien. Pe.). Targ. O. a. Y. I ib. XXXII, 15 אצ׳ תקוף succeeded in gaining strength. Targ. I Kings I, 34 (h. text יחי); a. fr.—Men. 43ᵃ וא׳ עיסקייהו and their business prospered. Erub. 45ᵃ אי מַצְלַח וכ׳ whether or not he shall succeed. Y. Snh. VI, 23ᶜ bot. ולא מַצְלְחָא מה דו עבדא (not מצלח) and she will not succeed in what she wants to do. B. Bath. 3ᵇ כל עבדא … מצלח any slave that will now rebel, shall succeed; Yalk. Deut. 913. R. Hash. 16ᵃ דמצלח זרעא וכ׳ that the winter seed thrives; a. fr.
- 2. to cause to succeed, prosper. Targ. Gen. XXIV, 21. Targ. Jer. III, 19 (h. text אשיתך); a. fr.—Gen. R. s. 13 תַצְלִיחַ, v. עֲבַד I.
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 4 distinct written forms H6744 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַצְלַ֖ח | Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 6:28 | 1 |
| הַצְלַ֛ח | Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 3:30 | 1 |
| וּ/מַצְלְחִ֔ין | Verb, a, Participle Active, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Ezra 6:14 | 1 |
| וּ/מַצְלַ֥ח | Verb, a, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezra 5:8 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6744, 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 → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
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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