צאן
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See also: צאָן
Hebrew[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Root |
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צ־א־ן (ṣ-ʾ-n) |
From Proto-Semitic *ṣ́aʔn-. Cognate with Akkadian 𒇇𒇻𒄭𒀀 (ṣēnum) and Arabic ضَأْن (ḍaʔn).
Noun[edit]
צֹאן • (tsón, ṣōʾn) m
- (collective) sheep, flock of sheep
- Tanach, Genesis 30:39, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:
- וַיֶּחֱמוּ הַצֹּאן אֶל-הַמַּקְלוֹת וַתֵּלַדְןָ הַצֹּאן עֲקֻדִּים נְקֻדִּים וּטְלֻאִים׃
- vayekhemú hatsón 'el-hamak'lót vateládna hatsón 'akudím n'kudím ut'lu'ím.
wayyeḥĕmū haṣṣōn ʾel-hammaqəlōṯ wattēláḏnā haṣṣōn ʿăquddīm nəquddīm ūṭəlūʾīm. - And the flocks conceived at the sight of the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.
- vayekhemú hatsón 'el-hamak'lót vateládna hatsón 'akudím n'kudím ut'lu'ím.
Declension[edit]
See also[edit]
- שֶׂה (sé)
References[edit]
- H6629 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- “צאן” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language
Further reading[edit]
- צאן on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia he
Yiddish[edit]
Noun[edit]
צאן • (tson)
- (nonstandard) Unpointed form of צאָן (tson).
Categories:
- Hebrew terms belonging to the root צ־א־ן
- Hebrew terms inherited from Proto-Semitic
- Hebrew terms derived from Proto-Semitic
- Hebrew lemmas
- Hebrew nouns
- Hebrew masculine nouns
- Hebrew collective nouns
- Hebrew terms with quotations
- Hebrew terms spelled with silent etymological alef
- Yiddish non-lemma forms
- Yiddish noun forms
- Yiddish unpointed forms