Midvash

צָנַחtsânach

descend, (meaning inferred from context)

Pronunciation: tsaw-nakh' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6795

Meanings

Qal: and she descended, from the ass (Judges 1:14; Joshua 15:18; Judges 4:21)

Where it appears

Appears 3 times in the Bible.

  • Joshua 15:18 When Acsah married Othniel, she urged him to ask her father for a field. As she got down off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What’s the matter?”
  • Judges 1:14 When Acsah married Othniel, she urged him to ask her father for a field. As she got down off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What’s the matter?”
  • Judges 4:21 But when Sisera fell asleep from exhaustion, Jael quietly crept up to him with a hammer and tent peg in her hand. Then she drove the tent peg through his temple and into the ground, and so he died.

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).