Lexicon
צְבִיָּה
tse.viy.yah
H6646
H:N-F Hebrew

gazelle

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Occurrences
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Hebrew
Language

tse.viy.yah denotes a gazelle in the supplied poetic imagery, explicitly in the comparison of twin fawns.

The attested use is a feminine singular noun for a gazelle: Song of Songs 4:5 explicitly places it in the phrase about “twins of a gazelle,” while Song of Songs 7:4 contains the same noun form within poetic imagery whose specific contribution is not exposed by the translation.

Senses in use

  1. Gazelle in poetic comparison · dominant

    In Song of Songs 4:5, the feminine singular absolute form occurs in the comparison of two breasts to “twins of a gazelle”; the APB renders the clause “Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.” The same feminine singular absolute form appears in Song of Songs 7:4 amid bodily imagery, though the APB’s rendering does not make its specific English counterpart identifiable.

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly uses “gazelle” in Song of Songs 4:5. In Song of Songs 7:4, it renders the surrounding imagery without an identifiable English equivalent for the noun.

Across Scripture