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זָנָב

zanav · tail

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2180 · appears 11 times in the Bible

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What it means

zanav (זָנָב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “tail”.

How to say it

za·nav

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. An animal's hindmost part, or the lowest place.
  2. The stub left, like of a firebrand.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • tail ×9
  • tails ×2

Related words

Comes from

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

Where it appears

  • Exodus 4:4

    Then YHWH said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand and seize it by its tail.” So he stretched out his hand and grasped it, and it became a staff in his hand,

  • Deuteronomy 28:13

    And YHWH will make you the head and not the tail; and you will be only on top and you will not be underneath, if you listen to the commandments of YHWH your Elohim that I am commanding you today, to keep and to do them,

  • Deuteronomy 28:44

    He will lend to you, and you will not lend to him; he will be the head, and you will be the tail.

  • Judges 15:4

    And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned them tail to tail and put one torch between the two tails, in the middle.

  • Job 40:17

    It bends its tail like a cedar; the sinews of its thighs are knit together.

  • Isaiah 7:4

    and say to him, ‘Be careful and keep calm; do not fear, and do not let your heart grow faint because of these two tails of smoking firebrands, at the burning of the anger of Rezin and Aram and of the son of Remaliah.

  • Isaiah 9:14

    So YHWH cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed, in one day.

  • Isaiah 9:15

    The elder and the dignitary, he is the head; and the prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail.

  • Isaiah 19:15

    And there will not be for Egypt any work that head or tail may do, palm branch or reed.

And 2 more times.