Ship
צִיStrong’s H6716tsi
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsi is the Hebrew word usually translated “ships”, “ship” and “ships of”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant.”
Meaning
- Ship
How it's translated
- and ships 1
- and a ship 1
- in the ships 1
- ships of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 1
- Isaiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
- Daniel 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 24:24And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.
- Isaiah 33:21But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
- Ezekiel 30:9In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh.
Hebrew dictionary
צִי tsi · ship
ship
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ship” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SHIP, noun
[Latin scapha; from the root of shape.]
In a general sense, a vessel or building of a peculiar structure, adapted to navigation, or floating on water by means of sails. In an appropriate sense, a building of a structure or form fitted for navigation, furnished with a bowsprit and three masts, a main-mast, a fore-mast and a mizen-mast, each of which is composed a lower-mast, a top-mast and top-gallant-mast, and square rigged. Ships are of various sizes and are for various uses; most of them however fall under the denomination of ships of war and merchant's ships.
All definitions and other forms of “ship”
SHIP, verb transitive
- To put on board of a ship or vessel of any kind; as, to ship goods at Liverpoll for New York.
- To transport in a ship; to convey by water.
- To receive into a ship or vessel; as, to ship at sea.
SHIP'-BUILDER, noun
[ship and builder.]
A man whose occupation is to construct
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.