צֶמֶדtsemed

couple, pair

Pronunciation: tseh'-med · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6776

Meanings

1. couple, pair, usually of animals (Judges 19:3; Judges 19:10; 2 Samuel 16:1)

2. a measure of land (only square measure in OT) like acre (1 Samuel 14:14; Isaiah 5:10)

Where it appears

Appears 15 times in the Bible.

  • Judges 19:3 her husband set out for Bethlehem to speak personally to her and persuade her to come back. He took with him a servant and a pair of donkeys. When he arrived at her father’s house, her father saw him and welcomed him.
  • Judges 19:10 But this time the man was determined to leave. So he took his two saddled donkeys and his concubine and headed in the direction of Jebus (that is, Jerusalem).
  • 1 Samuel 11:7 He took two oxen and cut them into pieces and sent the messengers to carry them throughout Israel with this message: “This is what will happen to the oxen of anyone who refuses to follow Saul and Samuel into battle!” And the Lord made the people afraid of Saul’s anger, and all of them came out together as one.
  • 1 Samuel 14:14 They killed some twenty men in all, and their bodies were scattered over about half an acre.
  • 2 Samuel 16:1 When David had gone a little beyond the summit of the Mount of Olives, Ziba, the servant of Mephibosheth, was waiting there for him. He had two donkeys loaded with 200 loaves of bread, 100 clusters of raisins, 100 bunches of summer fruit, and a wineskin full of wine.
  • 1 Kings 19:19 So Elijah went and found Elisha son of Shaphat plowing a field. There were twelve teams of oxen in the field, and Elisha was plowing with the twelfth team. Elijah went over to him and threw his cloak across his shoulders and then walked away.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).