צְפִירָה
crown
also: plait, chaplet, wreath fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
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
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 2 times (67%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct 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 H6843 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.
Isaiah 1 verse
Ezekiel 2 verses
- Ezekiel 7:7 הַ/צְּפִירָ֛ה ptcl def.art + n c fs Your doom is come to you, inhabitant of the land: the time is come, the day is near, [a day of] tumult, and not [of] joyful shouting, on the mountains.
- Ezekiel 7:10 הַ/צְּפִרָ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs Behold, the day, behold, it comes: your doom is gone forth; the rod has blossomed, pride has budded.
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.
The Hebrew noun צפירה centers on the idea of “crown.” It is rare — just 3 verses in the entire Hebrew Bible. The word gravitates to Ezekiel (67%), then Isaiah. Debuting at Isaiah 28:5, it then recurs through the corpus. BDB distinguishes 2 senses; alongside “crown” it spans “plait”, “chaplet”, and “wreath”. 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 H6843 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.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 3 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: Morning 2×
- American Standard Version: Cometh thy doom 1×, Diadem 1×, Doom 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Doom 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Diadem of 1×, Doom 1×, Doom has gone 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6843 across 3 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 H6843 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6843 across 3 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 H6843 across 3 tagged occurrences — 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.
- plait, chaplet, wreath, crown
- plait, coronet, diadem
Word origin
צְפִירָה n.f. plait, chaplet;— chaplet, coronet, diadem
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from צפיר (tsâphîyr) (H6842) — he-goat.
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.
צְפִירָא II
- (preced.) she-goat; goat’s hair, shag. Tosef. Kel. B. Bath. II, 11 של צפירא (sandals) of goat’s hair. Ib. V, 12 של צפורה (R. S. to Kel. XXVIII, 9 צפירה) (a strainer) of goat’s hair. Ib. IV, 14 של צפור ed. Zuck. (corr. acc.) mats of goat’s hair; Succ. 20ᵇ של סְפִירָא of (loosely woven) shag (v. Rashi in Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 200); [Rashi, fr. ספר to shear: horse-hair from the mane or the tail].
צְפִירָה II
- circle, turn; crown; צָפַר, v. צְפַר II)
- 1. circuit. Y. Erub. I, end, 19ᵈ (ref. to ויצפר, Jud. VII, 3) ולמה הן חוזרין בצ׳ and why were they to go home on a circuitous route? e.g. Judges 7:3
- 2. circle, suite of body-guards. Mekh. B’shall., Shir., s. 3; Yalk. Ex. 244 מלך … ועליו צ׳ מקיפתו וכ׳ a king that enters a city, and about him is a circle of guards that surrounds him, and his mighty men &c.
- 3. a round of twist, border. Tosef. Kel. B. Mets. V, 5 סרוד של צ׳ (ed. Zuck. צפורה) a frame with a rim (of plaited ropes &c.), if it has handles, is susceptible of uncleanness. Kel. XVI, 3 משיעשה בו צ׳ אחת as soon as he has woven around it one round (as a rim); Tosef. Kel. B. Mets. V, 13 צבירה אחת חוץ מזה וכ׳ (corr. acc.) one round besides the rims of the web itself. Y. Sabb. VIII, 11ᵇ top באילין קשייא כדי לעשות צ׳ of hard palm-leaves (used for ropes, v. אַפְסְקִימָא) as many as are required to make a border; a. e.—Pl. צְפִירוֹת. Kel. l. c.; Tosef. l. c. צבירות (corr. acc.).
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 H6843 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/צְּפִירָ֛ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 7:7 | 1 |
| הַ/צְּפִרָ֔ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 7:10 | 1 |
| וְ/לִ/צְפִירַ֖ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Isaiah 28:5 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6843, 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
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist 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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