tsemed · pair, yoke

What it means

tsemed (צֶמֶד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “pair, yoke”.

Two animals that go together; also the land a yoke of oxen plows.

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. Two animals harnessed together.
2. The land a yoke of oxen plows in a day.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• yoke ×6
• pair ×4
• pairs ×2
• acres ×1
• side by side ×1
• team ×1

Where it appears

• Judges×2
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×2
• 2 Kings×2
• Job×2
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×1

• Judges 19:3

  Then her husband arose and went after her to speak to her heart, to bring her back; and his young man was with him, and a pair of donkeys. And she brought him into her father’s house, and when the father of the young woman saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.

• Judges 19:10

  But the man was not willing to spend the night; he arose and went and came as far as opposite Jebus, that is Jerusalem; and with him were a pair of saddled donkeys, and his concubine was with him.

• 1 Samuel 11:7

  He took a yoke of oxen and cut it in pieces and sent them throughout all the territory of Israel by the hand of the messengers, saying, “Whoever does not come out after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen!” And the dread of YHWH fell upon the people, and they came out as one man.

• 1 Samuel 14:14

  The first blow that Jonathan and the one who carried his weapons struck was about twenty men, within about half a furrow of a yoke of field.

• 2 Samuel 16:1

  David had gone on a little from the summit, and there was Ziba, the young man of Mephibosheth, to meet him, with a pair of donkeys saddled, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred clusters of raisins, a hundred summer fruits, and a skin of wine.

• 1 Kings 19:19

  He went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat, who was plowing, twelve yoke of oxen were before him, and he was with the twelfth. Elijah passed over to him and threw his cloak on him.

• 1 Kings 19:21

  He turned back from following him, and took the yoke of oxen and sacrificed it; and with the equipment of the oxen he boiled the meat, and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he got up and went after Elijah and ministered to him.

• 2 Kings 5:17

  Naaman said, “If not, please let there be given to your servant a load of earth, as much as a pair of mules can carry; for your servant will no longer offer burnt offering or sacrifice to other gods, but to YHWH.

• 2 Kings 9:25

  He said to Bidkar his captain, “Pick him up, throw him into the plot of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember how I and you were riding side by side behind Ahab his father, when YHWH lifted up against him this oracle:

• Job 1:3

  His livestock was seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very large household of servants; and that man was greater than all the sons of the east.

• Job 42:12

  And YHWH blessed the end of Job more than his beginning; and he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.

• Isaiah 5:10

  For ten acres of vineyard will yield one bath, and a homer of seed will yield an ephah.

• Isaiah 21:7

  And when he sees chariots, pairs of horsemen, chariots of donkeys, chariots of camels, let him pay attention with attention, much attention.”

• Isaiah 21:9

  And look, here comes a chariot of men, pairs of horsemen!” And he answered and said, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon, and all the carved images of its gods he has shattered to the ground!”

• Jeremiah 51:23

  and I will shatter with you shepherd and his flock; and I will shatter with you farmer and his team; and I will shatter with you governors and prefects.