צִנּוֹר
pipe
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
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
1 distinct verse where H6794 appears in the Construct state, across 1 book. Filtered view — show all forms. 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 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.
צנור — transliterated tsinnûwr — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “pipe.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 2 verses. More than half of its appearances fall in 2 Samuel. Debuting at 2 Samuel 5:8, it then recurs through the corpus. Related forms include צנתרה. 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 H6794 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 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 2 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 50%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 50%
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: Gutter 1×, Waterspouts 1×
- American Standard Version: Watercourse 1×, Waterfalls 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Must use the water shaft 1×, Waterfalls 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Through the water shaft 1×, Waterfalls 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6794 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6794 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6794 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6794 across 2 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.
- pipe, spout, conduit, water conduit
Word origin
צִנּוֹר n.m. pipe, spout, conduit
— 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 perhaps meaning to be hollow
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.
צִנּוֹר
- [anything carved out or turned,]
- 1. socket in which the door-pivot turns, or pivot. M. Kat. I, 10 (11ᵃ) הציר והצ׳ the pivot and the socket (or the socket and the pivot; v. Rashi in Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 30).
- 2. water pipe, spout, duct. Mikv. IV, 1 המניח כלים תחת הצ׳ if one puts vessels under the spout (which feeds a bath). Ab. Zar. 75ᵃ; Tosef. ib. VIII (IX), 3 תחת הצ׳ … מקלחין under the spout when its waters splash forth; Y. ib. V, end, 45ᵇ. Mikv. IV, 3, v. חָטַט. Tosef. Erub. IX (VI), 22 (larger than מזחילה). Ib. 23 צ׳ המקלח לרשות וכ׳ a gutter which runs into a public road whether containing water or wine; a. fr.—Euphem. vagina. Pirké d’R. El. ch. XVI.—Pl. צִנּוֹרוֹת, צִינּ׳. Y. Ab. Zar. III, 42ᶜ top, v. מָשַׁךְ. Tosef. Sabb. VII (VIII), 16; Ber. 50ᵇ, v. מָשַׁךְ. Gen. R. s. 42 (ref. to Gen. XIV, 3) [read:] לא היה שם ים אלא צ׳ היאורים וכ׳ there was no lake there at the time, but (afterwards) the pipes of the ducts (the water veins in the rocks) burst, and a lake was formed (with ref. to Job XXVIII, 10); Yalk. ib. 72 צורות היאור (corr. acc.). e.g. Genesis 14:3
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 2 distinct written forms H6794 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| בַּ/צִּנּ֔וֹר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Samuel 5:8 | 1 |
| צִנּוֹרֶ֑י/ךָ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Psalms 42:7 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6794, 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.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
