צָנַח

tsanach · get down, drive down

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6795 · appears 3 times in the Bible

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What it means

tsanach (צָנַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “get down, drive down”.

Get down from a mount; also to drive something down.

How to say it

tsa·nach

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. To dismount from one's animal.
  2. To sink into the ground.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • she got down ×2
  • it went down ×1

Where it appears

  • Joshua 15:18

    And when she came, she urged him to ask her father for the field. And she got down from the donkey, and Caleb said to her, “What is the matter with you?”

  • Judges 1:14

    When she came, she urged him to ask her father for the field. She got down from the donkey, and Caleb said to her, “What do you want?”

  • Judges 4:21

    But Jael the wife of Heber took the peg of the tent and put the hammer in her hand, and she came to him quietly and drove the peg into his temple, and it went down into the ground; he was fast asleep and exhausted, and he died.