Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #6856 - צִפֹּרֶן tsipporen (fingernail)

Original Word:	צִפֹּרֶן
Transliteration:	tsipporen
Definition:	fingernail, stylus point
Part of Speech:	Noun Masculine
Phonetic Spelling:	(tsip-po'-ren)
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

nail, point

From tsaphar (in the denominative sense (from tsippowr) of scratching); properly, a claw, i.e. (human) nail; also the point of a style (or pen, tipped with adamant) -- nail, point.

see HEBREW tsaphar

see HEBREW tsippowr

Englishman's Concordance

1) fingernail, stylus point
1a) finger-nail
1b) point (of a diamond)
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H6852 (in the denominative sense [from H6833] of scratching)
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1961a

Brown-Driver-Briggs

צִמֹּ֫רֶןnoun [masculine]nail (of finger), stylus-point; — construct ׳צJeremiah 17:1; plural suffix צִמָּרְנֶיהָDeuteronomy 21:12; —

1finger-nailDeuteronomy 21:12 (compare RS^{K 178; Semitic i. 407, 2nd ed. 428} We^{Heid. 2. 171}).

2 transf., שָׁמִיר׳בְּצJeremiah 17:1with a point of diamond (compare Plin^{NH 37, 4}).

V. צפר (√ of following; Aramaic צְפִירָצ, image unavailable=צָפִיר; perhaps compare Arabic leap (but =)).

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 6856. צִפֹּ֫רֶן (tsipporen) — 2 Occurrences

Deuteronomy 21:12
HEB:וְעָשְׂתָ֖ה אֶת־ צִפָּרְנֶֽיהָ׃
NAS: her head and trim her nails.
KJV: her head, and pare her nails;
INT: her head and trim her nails

Jeremiah 17:1
HEB:בְּעֵ֥ט בַּרְזֶ֖ל בְּצִפֹּ֣רֶן שָׁמִ֑יר חֲרוּשָׁה֙
NAS: With a diamond point it is engraved
KJV: of iron, [and] with the point of a diamond:
INT: stylus an iron point A diamond is engraved

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