צָנַח
tsa.nach
to descend
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe word "tzanach" (H6795) in the Hebrew language is defined as "to descend." Its three occurrences in the Bible highlight its range of usage in conveying movement or change from a higher to a lower position. In the context of the Bible, "tzanach" may refer to physical movement downward or transition from one condition to another. Without more information about the verses where it is used, we can't determine the exact nature of "descending" in each instance. Given its limited occurrences, "tzanach" does not appear to be a central concept in the Bible. Nevertheless, its use in specific contexts may provide insight into the ideas and themes being conveyed in those passages.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
3 total occurrences across the text
When she came, she had him ask her father for a field. She got off her donkey, and Caleb said, “What do you want?”
Judges 1:14When she came, she got him to ask her father for a field. She got off her donkey; and Caleb said to her, “What would you like?”
Judges 4:21Then Jael Heber’s wife took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and struck the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground, for he was in a deep sleep; so he fainted and died.