צַמֶּ֫רֶת
treetop
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
- 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).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H6788 appears — 5 distinct verses 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.
Ezekiel 5 verses
- Ezekiel 17:3 צַמֶּ֥רֶת n c fs cs and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: A great eagle with great wings and long feathers, full of feathers, which had various colors, came to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar:
- Ezekiel 17:22 מִ/צַּמֶּ֧רֶת prep + n c fs cs Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also take of the lofty top of the cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it on a high and lofty mountain:
- Ezekiel 31:3 צַמַּרְתּֽ/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful branches, and with a forest-like shade, and of high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs.
- Ezekiel 31:10 צַמַּרְתּ/וֹ֙ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: Because you are exalted in stature, and he has set his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
- Ezekiel 31:14 צַמַּרְתָּ/ם֙ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up on their height, [even] all who drink water: for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with those who go down to the pit.
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.
“treetop” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun צמרת (tsammereth). It occurs a mere 5 verses across Scripture. It clusters heavily in Ezekiel, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. Its earliest occurrence is Ezekiel 17:3. Related forms include צמר, עמר and צמרים. See the sense tree, 5-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6788 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 →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,337
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,337 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ezekiel 5 verses 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 5 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 5 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: Top 3×, Highest branch 2×
- American Standard Version: Top 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Top 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: The 2×, Treetop 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6788 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6788 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6788 across 5 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 H6788 across 6 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 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.
- treetop
Word origin
n.f. tree-top (poss. from woolly, feathery, appearance);—צ׳ cstr., of cedar (in fig.) Ez 17:3, 22, so sf. צַמַּרְתּוֹ 31:3, 10; of tall trees in gen., צַמַּרְתָּם v 14.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from צמר (tsemer) (H6785) — wool.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms H6788 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| מִ/צַּמֶּ֧רֶת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Ezekiel 17:22 | 1 |
| צַמֶּ֥רֶת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Ezekiel 17:3 | 1 |
| צַמַּרְתּ/וֹ֙ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Ezekiel 31:10 | 1 |
| צַמַּרְתָּ/ם֙ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Ezekiel 31:14 | 1 |
| צַמַּרְתּֽ/וֹ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Ezekiel 31:3 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6788, 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.
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.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 5 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 5 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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