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Friday, October 31st, 2025
the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30

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Bible Lexicons

Old Testament Hebrew Lexical DictionaryHebrew Lexicon

Strong's #6642 - צָבַט

Transliteration

tsâbaṭ

Phonetics

tsaw-bat'

Origin

a primitive root

Parts of Speech

verb

TWOT

1871

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

(Qal) to reach, hold out

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (1)

Ruth 1

BSB (1)

Ruth 1

CSB (1)

Ruth 1

ESV (1)

Ruth 1

KJV (1)

Ruth 1

LEB (1)

Ruth 1

LSB (1)

Ruth 1

N95 (1)

Ruth 1

NAS (1)

Ruth 1

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (1)

Ruth 1

Ancient Hebrew Lexicon Definitions

2654) u b y (תסבתה TsBTh) AC: Grasp CO: ? AB: ?: A reaching out to grasp something. [from: by- as enclosed in a wall]

V) u b y (תסבתה TsBTh) - Grasp: KJV (1): (vf: Paal) reach - Strongs: H6642 (צָבַט)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

[צָבַט] verb reach, hold out, to (ל person) (properly grasp, hold, so Late Hebrew (rare), בֵּית הַצְּבִיטָה handle (of jug); Arabic

hold firmly, seize; Ethiopic

grasp firmly); —

Qal Imperfect 3 masculine singular וַיִּצְבָּטלָֿהּ Ruth 2:14 (accusative of thing).

I. צבע (√ of following; Late Hebrew צָבַע dye; Assyrian ƒibûtum, ƒubâtu, dyed stuff (see Zehnpf^{BAS i.519}); Arabic Aramaic צְבַע , all dip, dye).

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

צָבַט fut. יִצְבֹּט to reach out to; only once found, Ruth 2:14. Arab. ضبط to grasp, to snatch.

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List of Word Forms

וַיִּצְבָּט־ ויצבט־ vaiyitzbot way·yiṣ·bāṭ- wayyiṣbāṭ-