צָלָף
Zalaph
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Zalaph’ 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
- 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 H6764 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
Nehemiah 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.
“Zalaph” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name צלף (Tsâlâph). With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. It clusters heavily in Nehemiah, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. A true hapax — its single appearance is Nehemiah 3:30. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6764 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Nehemiah 1 verse 100%
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 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 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: Zalaph 1×
- American Standard Version: Zalaph 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Zalaph 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Zalaph 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6764 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6764 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6764 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6764 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
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.
- Zalaph = "wound"
- father of Hanun who assisted in rebuilding the city wall of Jerusalem after the return from exile
Word origin
n.pr.m. (NH caper-plant );—father of a wall-builder Ne 3:30, Σελε(φ), etc.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: from an unused root of unknown meaning
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.
צָלַף
- (cmp. צלל) to vibrate.
- to swing (a whip); to strike. Yoma V, 3, sq. לא היה … אלא כמַצְלִיף (in sprinkling upward and downward) he did not aim at a certain point above or below, but made the movement of swinging a whip; ib. 15ᵃ; a. e., v. מַנְגְּדָנָא a. טִבְרֵר.
צְלַף
- Af. אַצְלֵיף same. Targ. Ps. LXXIV, 5. Targ. Y. Deut. XXV, 3 ארבעין יַצְלִיף וכ׳ forty times he shall swing the whip, but strike one less.
צְלָף
- caper-bush. Maasr. IV, 6 הצ׳ מתעשר וכ׳ of the caper-tree the tithes must be given of the palm-like shoots, of the fruit, and of the flower (v. Löw, Pfl., p. 264); Ber. 36ᵃ (identical with נִצְפָּה). B. Bath. 28ᵇ אכלה … כגון צ׳ if one partook of three products of the same tree within three days, as for instance of the caper-bush. Sabb. 30ᵇ אחוי ליה צ׳ he pointed by way of an example to the caper-bush (of which the various products are eaten successively). Ib. 150ᵇ, v. נִצְפָּה. Bets. 25ᵇ; a. fr.—Pl. צְלָפִים, צְלָפִין. Sabb. 110ᵃ מי צ׳ caper-juice.
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.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6764, 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.
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
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.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Zalaph). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(wound) father of Hanun, who assisted in rebuilding the city wall. (Nehemiah 3:30)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
shadow; ringing; shaking
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
