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צָהַר tsâhar — to glisten

pronounced tsaw-har' · Strong's H6671 · 1 occurrence in the Hebrew Bible · 1 stem: Hiph'il

Translated in the KJV as make oil.

a primitive root; to glisten; used only as denominative from H3323,; to press out oil.

tsâhar in each stem

Hiph'il

Causative · active — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject does it

Imperfect (yiqtol) 1

יַצְהִ֑ירוּ Job 24:11 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine plural

Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst. (KJV)

What the stems mean

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Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.

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