tsina · large shield; hook

What it means

tsina (צִנָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “large shield; hook”.

Large shield that covered the whole body; sometimes a helper carried it in front of the warrior. The same form can also mean a hook, or cold.

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 large guard covering the whole body.
2. The coolness of snow.
3. Barbs for dragging captives.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• large shield ×12
• shield ×5
• large shields ×3
• Like the coolness ×1
• away with hooks ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×2
• 1 Kings×2
• 1 Chronicles×3
• 2 Chronicles×5
• Psalms×3
• Proverbs×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×4
• Amos×1

• 1 Samuel 17:7

  The shaft of his spear was like a beam of weavers, and the point of his spear weighed six hundred shekels of iron; and the one who carried the shield was going before him.

• 1 Samuel 17:41

  The Philistine came, going on and drawing near to David, and the man who carried the shield was before him.

• 1 Kings 10:16

  And King Solomon made two hundred large shields of beaten gold; six hundred shekels of gold went into each large shield;

• 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.

• 1 Chronicles 12:24

  the sons of Judah, who carried shield and spear, six thousand eight hundred, armed for the army;

• 1 Chronicles 12:34

  and of Naphtali, a thousand commanders, and with them, with shield and spear, thirty-seven thousand;

• 2 Chronicles 9:15

  King Solomon made two hundred large shields of beaten gold; six hundred shekels of beaten gold went into each large shield;

• 2 Chronicles 11:12

  And in every single city he put large shields and spears, and he strengthened them very greatly. So Judah and Benjamin were his.

• 2 Chronicles 14:8

  Asa had a force carrying large shield and spear: from Judah, three hundred thousand; and from Benjamin, carrying shield and drawing the bow, two hundred and eighty thousand. All these were mighty men of valor.

• 2 Chronicles 25:5

  Amaziah gathered Judah and set them by fathers’ houses, under commanders of thousands and under commanders of hundreds, for all Judah and Benjamin; and he counted them from twenty years old and upward, and found them to be three hundred thousand chosen men going out to the army, handling spear and large shield.

• Psalms 5:12

  For you bless the righteous, YHWH; as with a large shield with favor you surround him.

• Psalms 35:2

  Take hold of shield and large shield, and rise up to my help.

• Psalms 91:4

  With his feathers he will cover you, and under his wings you will take refuge; a large shield and buckler is his truth.

• Proverbs 25:13

  Like the coolness of snow in a day of harvest is a faithful envoy to those who send him; and he brings back the soul of his masters.

• Jeremiah 46:3

  Set in order shield and large shield, and draw near for battle!

• Ezekiel 23:24

  And they will come against you with weapons, chariots, and wheels, and with an assembly of peoples; large shield and shield and helmet they will set against you all around; and I will set before them judgment, and they will judge you according to their judgments.

• Ezekiel 26:8

  Your daughters in the field he will kill by the sword; and he will set against you a siege tower, and heap up against you a siege ramp, and raise against you a large shield.

• Ezekiel 38:4

  And I will turn you around and put hooks in your jaws, and I will bring out you and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed splendidly, a great assembly, with large shield and shield, wielding swords, all of them;

• Ezekiel 39:9

  And the inhabitants of the cities of Israel will go out, and they will make fires and kindle them with weapons, both shield and large shield, with bow and with arrows, and with hand staff and with spear; and they will make fires with them for seven years.

• Amos 4:2

  Adonai YHWH has sworn by his holiness that, look, days are coming upon you when they will carry you away with hooks, and the last of you with fish hooks.

And 2 more times.