H2180 - זָנָב (zânâb)

H2180 זָנָב (zânâb) zaw-nawb'

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

tail

Strong's Definition

the tail (literally or figuratively)

Derivation: from H2179 (זָנַב) (in the original sense of flapping);

KJV Usage: tail.

TWOT Reference: 562a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) tail, end, stump

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G3769

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

tail, end, stump

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

זָנָב zânâb BDB Definition: 1) tail, end, stump Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H2179 (in the original sense of flapping) Same Word by TWOT Number: 562a Total KJV Occurrences: 11

Bible Occurrences (9)

4:4

28:13 28:44

15:4

40:17

7:4 9:14 9:15 19:15

Exodus 4:4

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.

Deuteronomy 28:13

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.

Deuteronomy 28:44

He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.

Judges 15:4

Then Samson went out and caught three hundred foxes. And he took torches, turned the foxes tail-to-tail...,... and fastened a torch between each pair of tails....

Job 40:17

His tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are tightly knit.

Isaiah 7:4

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.

Isaiah 9:14

So the LORD will cut off Israel’s head and tail, [both] palm branch and reed in a single day.

Isaiah 9:15

The head is the elder and honorable man, and the tail is the prophet who teaches lies.