זָחַח

zachach · come loose

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2118 · appears 2 times in the Bible

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What it means

zachach (זָחַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “come loose”.

Move from its place.

How to say it

za·chach

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

To slip out of place.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Where it appears

Exodus 28:28
They shall bind the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a cord of blue, so that it is on the woven band of the ephod, and the breastpiece shall not come loose from the ephod.
Exodus 39:21
And they bound the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a cord of blue, so that it would be on the woven band of the ephod, and the breastpiece would not come loose from the ephod, as YHWH had commanded Moses.