Lexical Summary zinneb: to cut off or smite the tail Original Word: זָנַבTransliteration: zinneb Phonetic Spelling: (zaw-nab') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to cut off or smite the tail Meaning: to curtail, cut off the rear Strong's Concordance curtail, smite the hindmost A primitive root meaning to wag; used only as a denominative from zanab; to curtail, i.e. Cut off the rear -- smite the hindmost. see HEBREW zanab Brown-Driver-Briggs H2179. zinneb [זִנֵּב] verbdenominative Pi`el cut off, or smite, the tail, only figurative, of hostile attack in war; Perfect consecutive 2 masculine plural וְזִנַּבְתֶּם Joshua 10:19 (followed by אֹתָם); Imperfect3masculine singular כָּלהַֿנֶּחֱשָׁלִים בְּךָ וַיְזַנֵּב Deuteronomy 25:18; in both = attack or smite in the rear. |
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