צֶ֫לַע
limping
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 2 times (67%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 1 time (33%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 3 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H6761 appears — 3 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.
Psalms 2 verses
- Psalms 35:15 וּ/בְ/צַלְעִ/י֮ conj + prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn't know it. They tore at me, and didn't cease.
- Psalms 38:17 לְ/צֶ֣לַע prep + n c ms For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.
Jeremiah 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.
צלע (tselaʻ) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “limping.” It is rare — just 3 verses in the entire Hebrew Bible. Psalms dominates its distribution — 2 of 3 verses. Debuting at Psalms 35:15, it then recurs through the corpus. Related forms include צלע, צלא and צלע. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6761 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 →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 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 3 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 67%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 33%
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: Adversity 1×, Halt 1×
- American Standard Version: Adversity 1×, Fall 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Fall 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Stumbling 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6761 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6761 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6761 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 H6761 across 3 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.
- limping, stumbling
Word origin
צֶ֫לַע n.[m.] limping, stumbling
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from צלע (tsâlaʻ) (H6760) — to limp.
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.
צִילְעוֹת
- , pl. of צֵלָע.
צֵלַע
- Zela. Targ. II Sam. XXI, 14. Targ. Josh. XVIII, 28 צְלַע אֶלֶף.
צָלַע
- [to bend, hang over,] to halt; trnsf. to sin. Yalk. Num. 764 (ref. to Ps. XXXV, 15 sq.) כשאני צוֹלַעַת מעט וכ׳ as soon as I halt a little (am afflicted for my sins), they gather themselves against me; Pesik. R. s. 13 נכים עושים הדין בצוֹלְעִים the paralyzed execute judgment on the halting (the wicked punish the frail); ib. [read:] שמא נכים וחגרים עושים את הדין במי שצוֹלֵעַ are the paralyzed and the crippled to punish him who halts? e.g. Psalms 35:15
- . Ib. כשאני מְצַלַּעַת וכ׳ when I halt (sin), they rejoice.
צֶלַע
- preced.) halting; fall, sin. Pesik. R. s. 13 (v. preced.) יושבים … הצ׳ לבוא עלי they sit and look out, when I come to fall, that they may come against me. Midr. Till. to Ps. III (ref. to בצלע, II Sam. XVI, 13) מזכיר לו מעשה הצ׳ he (Shimei) reminded him (David) of the story of the fall (David’s crime); Yalk. Sam. 151. e.g. 2 Samuel 16:13
צֵלָע
- v. צָלַע)
- 1. side, rib. Ḥull. 42ᵇ נעקרה צ׳ מעיקרה if a rib of an animal is torn loose from its seat. Gen. R. s. 21 (ref. to Gen. III, 22) כל זמן … כאחד וכיון שנטלה צַלְעָתוֹ וכ׳ as long as he was Adam, he was like one (harmonious in himself), but when his rib was taken from him, he was ‘to know’ (the conflict between) ‘good and evil’; Yalk. ib. 34. Kidd. 6ᵃ צַלְעָתִי מהו if one says to a woman, ‘be thou my rib’ (alluding to Gen. II, 22), how is it (is this to be recognized as a betrothal)?; a. fr.—Pl. צְלָעוֹת. Ḥull. III, 1 נשתברו רוב צַלְעוֹתֶיהָ if the larger number of an animal’s ribs are broken. Ib. 52ᵃ ובצ׳ גדולות וכ׳ and it means the large ribs, those that have marrow in their bones; a. fr.—2) side of a hill or rock.—Pl. as ab. Shebi. V, 4; Y. ib. 36ᵃ top צִילְעוֹת constr., v. פּוּאָה. e.g. Genesis 3:22
- 3. wing of a building. B. Bath. 61ᵃ
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 H6761 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| וּ/בְ/צַלְעִ/י֮ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Psalms 35:15 | 1 |
| לְ/צֶ֣לַע | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 38:17 | 1 |
| צַלְעִ֑/י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Jeremiah 20:10 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6761, 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.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 3 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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