צַלְמֻנָּע
Zalmunna
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H6759 appears — 9 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.
Judges 8 verses
- Judges 8:5 וְ/צַלְמֻנָּ֖ע conj + n Proper He said to the men of Succoth, Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me; for they are faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.
- Judges 8:6 וְ/צַלְמֻנָּ֛ע conj + n Proper The princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your army?
- Judges 8:7 צַלְמֻנָּ֖ע n Proper Gideon said, Therefore when Yahweh has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.
- Judges 8:10 וְ/צַלְמֻנָּ֜ע conj + n Proper Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the host of the children of the east; for there fell one hundred twenty thousand men who drew sword.
- Judges 8:12 וְ/צַלְמֻנָּ֔ע צַלְמֻנָּ֔ע conj + n Proper n Proper Zebah and Zalmunna fled; and he pursued after them; and he took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and confused all the host.
- Judges 8:15 וְ/צַלְמֻנָּ֑ע וְ/צַלְמֻנָּ֤ע conj + n Proper conj + n Proper He came to the men of Succoth, and said, See Zebah and Zalmunna, concerning whom you did taunt me, saying, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your men who are weary?
- Judges 8:18 צַלְמֻנָּ֔ע n Proper Then said he to Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men were they whom you killed at Tabor? They answered, As you are, so were they; each one resembled the children of a king.
- Judges 8:21 וְ/צַלְמֻנָּ֗ע צַלְמֻנָּ֔ע conj + n Proper n Proper Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise you, and fall on us; for as the man is, so is his strength. Gideon arose, and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescents that were on their camels' necks.
Psalms 1 verse
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.
צלמנע — transliterated Tsalmunnâʻ — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Zalmunna.” More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Judges. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 9 verses — uncommon. Debuting at Judges 8:5, it then recurs through the corpus. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6759 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 →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,101
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 9 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 9 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 8 verses · 89%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 11%
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: Zalmunna 12×
- American Standard Version: Zalmunna 12×
- Berean Standard Bible: Zalmunna 11×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Zalmunna 11×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6759 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6759 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6759 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6759 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 2 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.
- Zalmunna = "deprived of protection"
- a Midianite king slain by Gideon
Word origin
n.pr.m. a king of Midian, + זֶבַח, Ju 8:5 + 10 times Ju 8, ψ 83:12, Σελμανα, Σαλμ.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from צל (tsêl) (H6738) — shadow.
Forms in the corpus
The 10 distinct written forms H6759 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| צַלְמֻנָּ֔ע | Noun, Proper | Judges 8:12 | 3 |
| וְ/צַלְמֻנָּ֑ע | Noun, Proper | Judges 8:15 | 1 |
| וְ/צַלְמֻנָּ֔ע | Noun, Proper | Judges 8:12 | 1 |
| וְ/צַלְמֻנָּ֖ע | Noun, Proper | Judges 8:5 | 1 |
| וְ/צַלְמֻנָּ֗ע | Noun, Proper | Judges 8:21 | 1 |
| וְ/צַלְמֻנָּ֛ע | Noun, Proper | Judges 8:6 | 1 |
| וְ/צַלְמֻנָּ֜ע | Noun, Proper | Judges 8:10 | 1 |
| וְ/צַלְמֻנָּ֤ע | Noun, Proper | Judges 8:15 | 1 |
| וּ֝/כְ/צַלְמֻנָּ֗ע | Noun, Proper | Psalms 83:11 | 1 |
| צַלְמֻנָּ֖ע | Noun, Proper | Judges 8:7 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6759, 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
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- בצלאל Bᵉtsalʼêl H1212 Bezaleel
- צלה Tsillâh H6741 Zillah
- צלצח Tseltsach H6766 Zelzah
- צלתי Tsillᵉthay H6769 Zilthai
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. 4 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Zalmunna). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
One of the two kings of Midian whom the "Lord delivered" into the hands of Gideon. He was slain afterwards with Zebah (Judg. 8:5-21). (See ZEBAH.)
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
[Zebah]
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
shadow; image; idol forbidden
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 9 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 9 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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