צָנַח
tsa.nach
“to descend”
Definition
to alight; (transitive) to cause to descend, i.e. drive down
a primitive root;
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Grammar & Morphology
Verb
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Hebrew Verb
Occurrences
צָנַח appears 3 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
One day Acsah came to Othniel and urged him to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What do you desire?”
But as he lay sleeping from exhaustion, Heber’s wife Jael took a tent peg, grabbed a hammer, and went silently to Sisera. She drove the peg through his temple and into the ground, and he died.
One day Acsah came to Othniel and urged him to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What do you desire?”
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