זָנָב
za.nav
“tail”
Definition
the tail (literally or figuratively)
from H2179 (זָנַב) (in the original sense of flapping);
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Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
זָנָב appears 7 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
The LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward, if you hear and carefully follow the commandments of the LORD your God, which I am giving you today.
He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.
“Stretch out your hand and grab it by the tail,” the LORD said to Moses, who reached out his hand and caught the snake, and it turned back into a staff in his hand.
There is nothing Egypt can do—head or tail, palm or reed.
and say to him: Calm down and be quiet. Do not be afraid or disheartened over these two smoldering stubs of firewood—over the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and of the son of Remaliah.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.