זַן
zan · kind, sort
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2177 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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zan (זַן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “kind, sort”.
One type of thing among several. Said of spices or of foods of various kinds.
How to say it
zan
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Each group of things that resemble one another.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- kind ×2
- perfumes of various kinds ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 2 Chronicles 16:14
They buried him in his tombs that he had dug for himself in the city of David, and they laid him on the bed that they had filled with spices and perfumes of various kinds blended as a perfumer’s work; and they made for him a very great burning.
- Psalms 144:13
our granaries full, supplying from kind to kind; our sheep increasing by thousands, by tens of thousands in our fields;
And 1 more times.