Tail
זָנָבStrong’s H2180zanav (za-nav)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Zanav is the Hebrew word usually translated “into tail”, “tail” and “on tail its”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the LORD said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand:”
Meaning
- Tail, end, stump
How it's translated
- into tail 2
- tail 2
- and tail 2
- on tail its 1
- the tails 1
- tail its 1
- stumps of 1
- the tail 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 4
- Deuteronomy 2
- Exodus 1
- Judges 1
- Job 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 28:13And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:
- Deuteronomy 28:44He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
- Judges 15:4And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.
- Job 40:17He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.
- Isaiah 7:4And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
- Isaiah 9:14Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.
Hebrew dictionary
זָנָב zanav · tail
tail, end, stump
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “tail” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TAIL, noun
- The part of an animal which terminates its body behind.
- The lower part, noting inferiority.“The Lord will make thee the head, and not the tail” Deuteronomy 28:13
- Any thing hanging long; a catkin.
- The hinder part of any thing.
All definitions and other forms of “tail”
- In anatomy, that tendon of a muscle which is fixed to the movable part.
- In botany, the tail of a seed, is a downy or feathery appendage to certain seeds, formed of the permanent elongated style.
- Horse's tail among the Tartars and Chinese, is an ensign or flag; among the Turks, a standard borne before the grand visier, bashaws and the sangiacs.
- In heraldry, the tail of a hart.
- In music, the part of a note running upwards or downwards.
- The extremity or last end; as the tail of a storm.
TAIL, noun
In law, an estate in tail is a limited fee; an estate limited to certain heirs, and from which the other heirs are precluded. Estates tail are general or special; general, where lands and tenements are given to one, and to the heirs of his body begotten; special, where the gift is restrained to certain heirs of the donee; s body, as to his heirs by a particular woman names. See Entail.]
TAIL, verb transitive
To pull by the tail
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.