Definition
from H2179 (in the original sense of flapping); the tail (literally or figuratively)
Traditional renderings: tail.
Traditional renderings: tail.
In the Greek Old Testament
How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders זָנָב:
- ξύλονxulon“wood”always
Usage patterns
Occurrences
11 total
- Exodus 4:4בִּזְנָב֑וֹ · by the tail“Stretch out your hand and grab it by the tail,” the LORD said to Moses, who reached out his hand and caught the snake, and it turned back into a staff in his hand.
- Deuteronomy 28:13לְזָנָ֔ב · the tailThe LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward, if you hear and carefully follow the commandments of the LORD your God, which I am giving you today.
- Deuteronomy 28:44לְזָנָֽב׃ · the tailHe will lend to you, but you will not lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.
- Judges 15:4זָנָב֙ · the foxes tail-to-tail; זָנָ֔ב; הַזְּנָב֖וֹת · of tailsThen Samson went out and caught three hundred foxes. And he took torches, turned the foxes tail-to-tail, and fastened a torch between each pair of tails.
- Job 40:17זְנָב֣וֹ · His tailHis tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are tightly knit.
- Isaiah 7:4זַנְב֧וֹת · stubs…and say to him: Calm down and be quiet. Do not be afraid or disheartened over these two smoldering stubs of firewood—over the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and of the son of Remaliah.
- Isaiah 9:14וְזָנָ֛ב · and tailSo the LORD will cut off Israel’s head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day.
- Isaiah 9:15הַזָּנָֽב׃ · and the tailThe head is the elder and honorable man, and the tail is the prophet who teaches lies.
- Isaiah 19:15וְזָנָ֖ב · or tailThere is nothing Egypt can do—head or tail, palm or reed.