Thing
צְבוּStrong’s H6640tsevu (tse-vu)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Tsevu is the Aramaic word usually translated “anything”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that the purpose might not be changed concerning Daniel.”
Meaning
- Thing, anything, matterapparently thing desired · as a matter of determination
How it's translated
- anything 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
צְבוּ tsevu · thing
1) thing, anything, matter 1a) apparently thing desired 1b) as a matter of determination
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “thing” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
THING, noun
[The primary sense of thing is that which comes, falls or happens, like event, from Latin evenio.]
- An event or action; that which happens or falls out, or that which is done, told or proposed.“And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight, because of his son” Genesis 21:11“Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, the thing proceedeth from the Lord” Genesis 24:50“I will tell you by what authority I do these things” Matthew 21:24“These things said Esaias when he saw his glory” John 12:41
- Any substance; that which is created; any particular article or commodity.“They took the things which Micah had made” Judges 18:27
- An animal; as every living thing; every creeping thing Gen 1.
- A portion or part; something.
All definitions
- In contempt.
- Used of persons in contempt.
- Used in a sense of honor.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.