Pair
צֶ֫מֶדStrong’s H6776tsemed (tse-med)
Appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsemed is the Hebrew word usually translated “pair of”, “pairs” and “acre of”. It appears in 15 verses of the 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.”
Meaning
- Couple, pair, team, yokecouple, pair, span (usually of animals) · acre
How it's translated
- a pair of 5
- pair of 3
- and a pair of 2
- pairs 2
- an acre of 1
- acres of 1
- and team his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 3
- Judges 2
- 1 Samuel 2
- 1 Kings 2
- 2 Kings 2
- Job 2
8 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 19:10But 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.
- 1 Samuel 11:7And 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.
- 1 Samuel 14:14And 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.
- 2 Samuel 16:1And 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.
- 1 Kings 19:19So 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.
- 1 Kings 19:21And 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.
Hebrew dictionary
צֶ֫מֶד tsemed · pair
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
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pair” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PAIR, noun
[Latin par; Heb. to join, couple or associate.]
- Two things of a kind, similar in form, applied to the same purpose, and suited to each other or used together; as a pair of gloves or stockings; a pair of shoes; a pair of oxen or horses.
- Two of a sort; a couple; a brace; as a pair of nerves; a pair of doves. Luke 2:24
All definitions and other forms of “pair”
PAIR, verb intransitive
To be joined in pairs; to couple, as, birds pair in summer.
- To suit; to fit; as a counterpart.
PAIR, verb transitive
To unite in couples; as minds paired in heaven.
- To unite as correspondent, or rather to contrast.
PAIR, verb transitive
To impair. [See Impair.]
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.