צמר

Hebrew

צמר כבש

Root
צ־מ־ר (ts-m-r)
3 terms

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic [Term?]. Compare Aramaic עמר (ʿamar) and Tigrinya ጸምሪ (ṣämri).

Pronunciation

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡semeʁ/

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Noun

צֶמֶר • (tsémer) m (singular construct צֶמֶר־) [pattern: קֶטֶל]

1. wool (hair of sheep, etc.)
   • Tanach, 2 Kings 3:4, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     וּמֵישַׁע מֶלֶךְ־מוֹאָב הָיָה נֹקֵד וְהֵשִׁיב לְמֶלֶךְ־יִשְׂרָאֵל מֵאָה־אֶלֶף כָּרִים וּמֵאָה אֶלֶף אֵילִים צָמֶר׃

     Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep-master; and he rendered unto the king of Israel the wool of a hundred thousand lambs, and of a hundred thousand rams.

2. yarn (used for knitting and crochet)

Declension

Declension of צֶמֶר

	isolated forms		with possessive pronouns
Number:	State:	form	Person:	singular		plural
				m	f	m	f
singular	indefinite	צֶמֶר	first	צַמְרִי		צַמְרֵנוּ
	definite	הַצֶּמֶר	second	צַמְרְךָ	צַמְרֵךְ	צַמְרְכֶם	צַמְרְכֶן
	construct	צֶמֶר־	third	צַמְרוֹ	צַמְרָהּ	צַמְרָם	צַמְרָן

Derived terms

• צמר גפן
• צמר פלדה

References

• H6785 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Klein, Ernest (1987) “צֶמֶר”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English‎^[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 551a
• Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature‎^[2], London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 1289b
• “צמר” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language

Further reading

• צמר on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he