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צָבָה

tsa.vah

to swell

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Strong’s H6638Verb2 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

make swell1

it will swell1

In the text

Numbers 5:22לַצְבּוֹת
May this water that brings a curse enter your stomach and cause your belly to swell and your thigh to shrivel.’ Then the woman is to say, ‘Amen, Amen.’

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[צָבָה] vb. swell, swell up

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.