צְפַרְדֵּעַ
frogs
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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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
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute 11 times (85%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 2 times (15%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 13 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H6854 appears — 13 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.
Exodus 11 verses
- Exodus 8:2 בַּֽ/צְפַרְדְּעִֽים prep det + n c fp If you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your borders with frogs:
- Exodus 8:3 צְפַרְדְּעִים֒ n c fp and the river shall swarm with frogs, which shall go up and come into your house, and into your bedchamber, and on your bed, and into the house of your servants, and on your people, and into your ovens, and into your kneading-troughs:
- Exodus 8:4 הַֽ/צְפַרְדְּעִֽים ptcl def.art + n c fp and the frogs shall come up both on you, and on your people, and on all your servants.'"
- Exodus 8:5 הַֽ/צְפַרְדְּעִ֖ים ptcl def.art + n c fp Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Stretch forth your hand with your rod over the rivers, over the streams, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.'"
- Exodus 8:6 הַ/צְּפַרְדֵּ֔עַ ptcl def.art + n c fs Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 8:7 הַֽ/צְפַרְדְּעִ֖ים ptcl def.art + n c fp The magicians did in like manner with their enchantments, and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 8:8 הַֽ/צְפַרְדְּעִ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c fp Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, "Entreat Yahweh, that he take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice to Yahweh."
- Exodus 8:9 הַֽ/צֲפַרְדְּעִ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c fp Moses said to Pharaoh, "I give you the honor of setting the time that I should pray for you, and for your servants, and for your people, that the frogs be destroyed from you and your houses, and remain in the river only."
- Exodus 8:11 הַֽ/צְפַרְדְּעִ֗ים ptcl def.art + n c fp The frogs shall depart from you, and from your houses, and from your servants, and from your people. They shall remain in the river only."
- Exodus 8:12 הַֽ/צְפַרְדְּעִ֖ים ptcl def.art + n c fp Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to Yahweh concerning the frogs which he had brought on Pharaoh.
- Exodus 8:13 הַֽ/צְפַרְדְּעִ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c fp Yahweh did according to the word of Moses, and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the courts, and out of the fields.
Psalms 2 verses
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.
צפרדע — transliterated tsᵉphardêaʻ — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “frogs.” Its uses cluster heavily in Exodus (85% of all occurrences). With 13 verses in 2 books, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. Debuting at Exodus 8:2, it then recurs through the corpus. Sharing its root, it stands alongside צפר, טפר and צפור. 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 H6854 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 →
- 13
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 13 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,001
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,001 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 13 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 13 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 11 verses · 85%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 15%
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: Frogs 12×
- American Standard Version: Frogs 11×
- Berean Standard Bible: Frogs 11×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Frogs 11×, Frog 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6854 across 13 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 H6854 across 13 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6854 across 13 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6854 across 13 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.
- frogs
Word origin
Derived from צפר (tsâphar) (H6852) — to depart early.
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.
צְפַרְדֵּעַ
- c. (b. h.) frog. Ker. 13ᵇ. Toh. V, 1; 4. Snh. 67ᵇ (ref. to Ex. VIII, 2) צ׳ אחת היתה וכ׳ originally there was only one frog &c.; Ex. R. s. 10. Ib. אני עושה שליחותי … ע"י צ׳ I have my message carried, and be it even through a serpent, a scorpion or a frog; a. fr.—Pl. צְפַרְדְּעִים, צְפַרְדְּעִין. Ib. השחתת הצ׳ the ruin which the frogs effected. Pesik. Vayhi, p. 66ᵇ ואח"כ … קולנין (כגון) צ׳ and then he sent them criers (heralds), that is the frogs; Pesik. R. s. 17; a. e. e.g. Exodus 8:2
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 10 distinct written forms H6854 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַֽ/צְפַרְדְּעִ֖ים | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Exodus 8:5 | 3 |
| הַֽ/צְפַרְדְּעִ֔ים | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Exodus 8:8 | 2 |
| בַּֽ/צְפַרְדְּעִֽים | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Exodus 8:2 | 1 |
| הַ/צְּפַרְדֵּ֔עַ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 8:6 | 1 |
| הַֽ/צְפַרְדְּעִ֗ים | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Exodus 8:11 | 1 |
| הַֽ/צְפַרְדְּעִֽים | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Exodus 8:4 | 1 |
| הַֽ/צֲפַרְדְּעִ֔ים | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Exodus 8:9 | 1 |
| וּ֝/צְפַרְדֵּ֗עַ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 78:45 | 1 |
| צְפַרְדְּעִ֑ים | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Psalms 105:30 | 1 |
| צְפַרְדְּעִים֒ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Exodus 8:3 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6854, 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
- טפר ṭᵉphar H2953 fingernail
- צפור tsippôwr H6833 bird
- צפיר tsâphîyr H6842 he-goat
- צפרן tsippôren H6856 fingernail
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 → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. 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 12 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 13 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.
