Quick Definition
side
Strong's Definition
tsad tsad Contracted from an unused root meaning to sidle off; a side ; figuratively an adversary: - (be-) side. LXX related word(s) G3313 meros G4125 pleura G5606 omos
Derivation: contr. from an unused root meaning to sidle off;
KJV Usage: (be-) side.
TWOT Reference: 1876a
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
צַד (tsad) — side. side Aramaic equivalent: tsad (צַד "side" H6655)
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m
side = side of a person's body, especially right above the hip; ► place where people sometimes carried their small children; ≈ location where one's body is unprotected and vulnerable
NUM 33:55 · JOS 23:13 · JDG 2:3 · 2SA 2:16 · ISA 60:4 · ISA 66:12 · EZK 4:4 · EZK 4:6 · EZK 4:8 · EZK 4:8 · EZK 4:9 · EZK 34:21
side = side of an inanimate object
GEN 6:16 · EXO 25:32 · EXO 25:32 · EXO 25:32 · EXO 26:13 · EXO 30:4 · EXO 37:18 · EXO 37:18 · EXO 37:18 · EXO 37:27
Spatial Referents
Collocation: מִצַּד
beside, alongside, to the side of = a referent pointing to space alongside an object or as part of that object
DEU 31:26 · JOS 3:16 · JOS 12:9 · RUT 2:14 · 1SA 6:8 · 1SA 20:20 · 1SA 20:25 · 1SA 23:26 · 1SA 23:26 · 2SA 13:34 · PSA 91:7
Connection
Collocation: מִצַּד
with regard to = relation linking two events X and Y, by which X is happening in connection to Y
Modification
Collocation: לְצַד
against = relation linking event X to object Y, by which X is targeting Y
2 JDG 2:3 HOTTP-B suggests that this word refers to some type of hunting instrument | RSV NRSV NJPS NJB GNT צָרִים "adversary, enemy, oppressor" | NIV SDBH read this phrase as a truncated form of the idiom "thorns in one's side"
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