צָמִיד
bracelet
‘bracelet’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
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
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 5 times (71%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 1 time (14%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 1 time (14%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 7 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H6781 appears — 7 distinct verses across 3 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.
Genesis 3 verses
- Genesis 24:22 צְמִידִים֙ n c mp It happened, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold,
- Genesis 24:30 הַ/צְּמִדִים֮ ptcl def.art + n c mp It happened, when he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, "This is what the man said to me," that he came to the man. Behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.
- Genesis 24:47 וְ/הַ/צְּמִידִ֖ים conj + ptcl def.art + n c mp I asked her, and said, 'Whose daughter are you?' She said, 'The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare to him.' I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands.
Numbers 2 verses
- Numbers 19:15 צָמִ֥יד n c ms cs Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean.
- Numbers 31:50 וְ/צָמִ֔יד conj + n c ms We have brought Yahweh's offering, what every man has gotten, of jewels of gold, ankle-chains, and bracelets, signet-rings, ear-rings, and armlets, to make atonement for our souls before Yahweh.
Ezekiel 2 verses
- Ezekiel 16:11 צְמִידִים֙ n c mp I decked you with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands, and a chain on your neck.
- Ezekiel 23:42 צְמִידִים֙ n c mp The voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with men of the common sort were brought drunkards from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on the hands of them [twain], and beautiful crowns on their heads.
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.
“bracelet” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun צמיד (tsâmîyd). Scripture first uses it in Genesis 24:22. It appears 7 verses across 3 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. More than a third of its appearances fall in Genesis. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. See the sense tree, 7-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6781 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 →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,835
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,835 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
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 7 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 5 verses · 71%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 29%
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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Bracelets 6×
- American Standard Version†: Bracelets 6×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Bracelets 6×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Bracelets 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6781 across 7† 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6781 across 7† 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6781 across 7† 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6781 across 7† 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.
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.
- bracelet
- cover (of vessel)
Word origin
I. n.m. Gn 24:22 bracelet (bound on wrist);—abs. צ׳ Nu 31:50; pl. צְמִידִים Gn 24:22 +,—bracelet Gn 24:22, 30, 47 (J), Nu 31:50 (P); in fig. Ez 16:11; 23:42.
II. n.[m.] cover, of vessel, Nu 19:15.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from צמד (tsâmad) (H6775) — to bind.
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.
צָמִיד
- [closely joined,]
- 1. exactly fitting lid. צ׳ פתיל, v. פָּתִיל. Snh. 64ᵃ (ref. to הנצמדים, Num. XXV, 5, in contrast to הדבקים, Deut. IV, 4) הנצמדים … כצ׳ פ׳ who were attached to Baal Peor like an air-tight lid, whereas they were ‘attached to the Lord’ merely as two dates sticking to each other; Yalk. Num. 771. e.g. Numbers 25:5
- 2. joined, yoked. Num. R. s. 20 (ref. to ויצמד, Num. XXV, 3) כאדם צ׳ במלאכתו like a man yoked (inseparably attached) to his work. e.g. Numbers 25:3
- 3. wrist-band, bracelet. Snh. l. c. הנצמדים … כצ׳ על ידי אשה וכ׳ ‘who were attached to Baal Peor’, means merely as a bracelet on the hands of a woman, whereas &c., v. דָּבַק; a. e.—Pl. צְמִידִים. Num. R. l. c. כצ׳ על ידיה like ‘the bracelets on her hands’ (Gen. XXIV, 22). Ib. זו גזירה קשה … ויצמד בצ׳ this was a greater calamity than that of the golden calf, for there it is said (Ex. XXXII, 2), ‘take off the golden rings’, but here, ‘and Israel was tied’ (Num. l. c.) with wristbands. Yalk. Gen. 109; a. e. e.g. Genesis 24:22
- 4. couple.—Pl. as ab. Num. R. l. c. (ref. to ויצמד, v. supra) בתחלה … צ׳ צ׳ זוגות וכ׳ at first they went (into the house of prostitution) secretly, but then they went in jointly, pair-wise, as we speak of צֶמֶד בָּקָר (a pair of oxen); Tanḥ. Bal. 18.
צָמִיד ²
- , v. צְמַד.—[Yalk. Koh. 989 אייתי צמידא, v. סְמִידָא.]
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 5 distinct written forms H6781 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| צְמִידִים֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Ezekiel 16:11 | 3 |
| הַ/צְּמִדִים֮ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 24:30 | 1 |
| וְ/הַ/צְּמִידִ֖ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 24:47 | 1 |
| וְ/צָמִ֔יד | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Numbers 31:50 | 1 |
| צָמִ֥יד | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Numbers 19:15 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 7 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 7 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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