Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
pair
Usage: 1) couple, pair, team, yoke 1a) couple, pair, span (usually of animals) 1b) acre 1b1) the amount of land a span of oxen could plow in one day
Tsemed means “acre” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H6776 צֶּמֶד (tsemed) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. tsemed (tseh'-med) n-m. 1. hence, an acre (i.e. day's task for a yoke of cattle to plough) [a yoke or team (i.e. pair)] It has 15 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include yoke, couple, two, and together. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
tsemed (tseh'-med) n-m. 1. hence, an acre (i.e. day's task for a yoke of cattle to plough) [a yoke or team (i.e. pair)] KJV: acre, couple, X together, two (donkeys), yoke (of oxen).
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pair
Usage: 1) couple, pair, team, yoke 1a) couple, pair, span (usually of animals) 1b) acre 1b1) the amount of land a span of oxen could plow in one day
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render tsemed, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
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15 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And her husband arose, and went after her, to speak friendly unto her, and to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple of asses: and she brought him into her father's house: and when the father of the damsel saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.
But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against Jebus, which is Jerusalem; and there were with him two asses saddled, his concubine also was with him.
And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.
First 15 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H6776.
And her husband arose, and went after her, to speak friendly unto her, and to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple of asses: and she brought him into her father's house: and when the father of the damsel saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.
But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against Jebus, which is Jerusalem; and there were with him two asses saddled, his concubine also was with him.
And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.
And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow.
And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.
So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.
And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him.
And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be given to thy servant two mules' burden of earth? for thy servant will henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto the LORD.
Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for remember how that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD laid this burden upon him;
His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:
And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.
I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6776, grouped by book.
Tsemed (Strong's H6776) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "acre". tsemed (tseh'-med) n-m. 1. hence, an acre (i.e. day's task for a yoke of cattle to plough) [a yoke or team (i.e. pair)]
This page currently indexes 15 linked usages for Strong's H6776 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6776 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as yoke, couple, two, and together. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.