Lexicon
צָבֶה
tsa.veh
H6639
H:A Hebrew

swollen

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tsa.veh describes the woman’s belly as becoming swollen in the stated curse.

The sole attested use describes swelling of the woman’s belly as part of the curse pronounced by the priest in Numbers 5:21.

Senses in use

  1. Belly becoming swollen under the curse · dominant

    In Numbers 5:21, the feminine singular absolute form occurs in the clause describing what the LORD causes to happen to the woman’s belly; the APB renders the clause “when the LORD causes your thigh to fall and your belly to swell.”

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Numbers 5:21, the APB presents the clause as the woman’s “belly to swell.” This rendering is treated as confirmation of the clause’s sense rather than an exact lexical mapping.

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