tsevi · gazelle, splendor

What it means

tsevi (צְבִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “gazelle, splendor”.

Gazelle; the same word also means "splendor" or "beauty."

How to say it

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

1. A light, handsome animal of the deer family, which could be hunted and eaten.
2. What gives splendor: "the glorious land".

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• gazelle ×10
• beautiful ×4
• gazelles ×4
• jewel ×4
• ornament ×4
• adornment ×3
• beauty ×3

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×4
• 2 Samuel×2
• 1 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Proverbs×1
• Song of Songs×5
• Isaiah×8
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×5
• Daniel×4

• Deuteronomy 12:15

  However, with all the desire of your soul you may sacrifice and eat meat according to the blessing of YHWH your Elohim that he has given you within all your gates; the unclean and the clean may eat it, as they eat the gazelle and the deer.

• Deuteronomy 12:22

  Just as the gazelle and the deer is eaten, so you shall eat it; the unclean and the clean alike may eat it.

• Deuteronomy 14:5

  the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.

• Deuteronomy 15:22

  Within your gates you may eat it; the unclean and the clean alike, as they eat the gazelle and the deer.

• 2 Samuel 1:19

  “The beauty, O Israel, lies slain on your high places. How the mighty have fallen!

• 2 Samuel 2:18

  The three sons of Zeruiah were there: Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Now Asahel was swift of foot like one of the gazelles that are in the field.

• 1 Kings 4:23

  ten fat oxen, and twenty pasture-fed oxen, and a hundred sheep, besides deer, and gazelle, and roebuck, and fattened fowl.

• 1 Chronicles 12:8

  From the Gadites there separated themselves and went to David, to the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty warriors, men of the army for war, who handled shield and spear; their faces were the faces of a lion, and they were like gazelles on the mountains in swiftness.

• Proverbs 6:5

  Free yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, and like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

• Song of Songs 2:7

  I make you swear, daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or by the does of the field, that you not awaken nor arouse love until it pleases.

• Song of Songs 2:9

  My beloved is like a gazelle or a fawn. Look, there he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattices.

• Song of Songs 2:17

  Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved, be like a gazelle or a fawn on the mountains of Bether.

• Song of Songs 3:5

  I make you swear, daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or by the does of the field, that you not awaken nor arouse love until it pleases.

• Song of Songs 8:14

  Flee, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a fawn on the mountains of balsams.

• Isaiah 4:2

  On that day the sprout of YHWH will be an ornament and glory, and the fruit of the land will be loftiness and beauty for the escaped of Israel.

• Isaiah 13:14

  And it will be like a hunted gazelle, and like sheep with no one to gather them; each to his people they will turn, and each to his land they will flee.

• Isaiah 13:19

  And Babylon, the ornament of kingdoms, the beauty of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be like the overthrow by Elohim of Sodom and Gomorrah.

• Isaiah 23:9

  YHWH Tsevaot has planned it, to profane the pride of all ornament, to bring into contempt all the honored of the earth.

• Isaiah 24:16

  From the end of the earth we have heard songs: “Ornament for the righteous!” But I said, “Leanness to me, leanness to me! Woe to me! Traitors betray, and with betrayal traitors betray.”

• Isaiah 28:1

  Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower, the adornment of its beauty, which is on the head of the valley of fatness of those struck down by wine!

• Isaiah 28:4

  And the fading flower, the adornment of its beauty, which is on the head of the valley of fatness, will be like an early fig before the summer, which the one who sees sees it, and while it is still in his hand he swallows it.

• Isaiah 28:5

  On that day YHWH Tsevaot will be a crown of adornment and a diadem of beauty for the remnant of his people,

• Jeremiah 3:19

  And I said, ‘How I will set you among the children and give you a desirable land, an inheritance of beauty, the most beautiful of the nations!’ And I said, ‘You will call me My father, and you will not turn away from following me.’

• Ezekiel 7:20

  And the beauty of its ornament they set for pride, and the images of their abominations, their detestable things, they made with it; therefore I have made it for them an impurity.

• Ezekiel 20:6

  on that day I raised my hand to them to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey, it is the jewel of all the lands.

• Ezekiel 20:15

  And I also raised my hand to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given, flowing with milk and honey, it is the jewel of all the lands,

• Ezekiel 25:9

  therefore, look, I am opening the shoulder of Moab from the cities, from its cities, from its edge, the jewel of the land, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim,

• Ezekiel 26:20

  then I will bring you down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you dwell in the land of the depths, like the ruins of old, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited; and I will set a jewel in the land of the living.

• Daniel 8:9

  And out of one of them came a horn from a small beginning, and it grew exceedingly toward the south and toward the east and toward the beautiful land.

• Daniel 11:16

  And the one who comes against him will do as he pleases, and there will be no one standing before him; and he will stand in the beautiful land, and destruction will be in his hand.

• Daniel 11:41

  And he will enter into the beautiful land, and many lands will stumble; but these will escape from his hand: Edom and Moab and the chief of the sons of Ammon.

• Daniel 11:45

  And he will pitch the tents of his palace between the seas and the beautiful holy mountain; yet he will come to his end, and there will be no one to help him.