To descend
צָנַחStrong’s H6795tsanach (tsa-nach)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsanach is the Hebrew word usually translated “went down” and “it went down”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it came to pass, as she came unto him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wouldest thou?”
Meaning
- (Qal) to go down, descend
How it's translated
- and she went down 2
- and it went down 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 2
- Joshua 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 1:14And it came to pass, when she came to him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted from off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wilt thou?
- Judges 4:21Then Jael Heber’s wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
Hebrew dictionary
צָנַח tsanach · to descend
(Qal) to go down, descend
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “descend” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DESCEND, verb intransitive
[Latin To climb.]
- To move or pass from a higher to a lower place; to move, come or go downwards; to fall; to sink; to run or flow down; applicable to any kind of motion or of body.“The rains descended, and the floods came” Matthew 7:25
- To go down, or to enter.
- To come suddenly; to fall violently.
- To go in; to enter.
All definitions and other forms of “descend”
- To rush; to invade, as an enemy.
- To proceed from a source or original; to be derived.
- To proceed, as from father to son; to pass from a preceding possessor, in the order of lineage, or according to the laws of succession or inheritance.
- To pass from general to particular considerations; as, having explained the general subject, we will descend to particulars.
- To come down from an elevated or honorable station; in a figurative sense.
- In music, to fall in sound; to pass from any note to another less acute or shrill, or from sharp to flat.
DESCEND, verb transitive
To walk, move or pass downwards on a declivity; as, to descend a hill; to descend an inclined plain. [But this may be considered as elliptical; on or along being understood.]
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.