צִיץ

Exodus 28:36 צִּ֖יץ a plate of

You are to make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it as on a seal: HOLY TO THE LORD.

Exodus 39:30 צִ֥יץ [the] plate of

They also made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and they engraved on it, like an inscription on a seal: HOLY TO THE LORD.

Leviticus 8:9 צִ֤יץ [the] plate of

Moses also put the turban on Aaron’s head and set the gold plate, the holy diadem, on the front of the turban, as the LORD had commanded him.

Numbers 17:8 צִ֔יץ blossom

The next day Moses entered the Tent of the Testimony and saw that Aaron’s staff, representing the house of Levi, had sprouted, put forth buds, blossomed, and produced almonds.

Here: 'Blossomed blossom', again a verb with its own noun. Tsits is also the name of the gold plate on the high priest's turban engraved 'Holy to YHWH' (Exod 28:36), which fits a sign about who is priest.

1 Kings 6:18 צִצִּ֑ים flowers

The cedar paneling inside the temple was carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; not a stone could be seen.

Here: Blossoms. Together with the previous word: 'open flowers', a stock motif in the temple's decoration.

1 Kings 6:29 צִצִּ֑ים flowers

Then he carved the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer sanctuaries, with carved engravings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers.

Here: 'Flowers.' The same word names the gold 'flower' plate on the high priest's turban (Exod 28:36), so it belongs to the vocabulary of sacred ornament.

1 Kings 6:32 צִצִּ֖ים flowers

The double doors were made of olive wood, and he carved into them cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers and overlaid the cherubim and palm trees with hammered gold.

1 Kings 6:35 צִצִּ֑ים flowers

He carved into them cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, and he overlaid them with gold hammered evenly over the carvings.

Job 14:2 כְּצִ֣יץ like a flower

Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.

Here: A wildflower or blossom, the kind that covers Levant hillsides after the winter rains and is gone within weeks. The prefix kə- ('like') sets up the first of two pictures for human life.

Psalm 103:15 כְּצִ֥יץ like [the] flower of

As for man, his days are like grass—he blooms like a flower of the field;

Here: 'Like a blossom': the bloom itself, the brightest and most short-lived stage of a plant. The second half of the verse moves from ordinary green grass to the flower at its peak.

Isaiah 28:1 וְצִ֥יץ and a flower

Woe to the majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards, to the fading flower of his glorious splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, the pride of those overcome by wine.

Here: A blossom, the kind of flower woven into a festive wreath. It shifts the crown picture from metal to petals, something that cannot last.

Isaiah 40:6 כְּצִ֥יץ [is] like [the] flower of

A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field.

Here: “Like the blossom of.” The word means a bloom or flower. Here the image is a wildflower that opens brightly and drops within days.

Isaiah 40:7 צִ֔יץ a flower

The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.

Isaiah 40:8 צִ֑יץ a flower

The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”

Here: The wildflower of the field, the brightest and briefest part of the plant. Verse 6 compares human ḥesed (loyalty, goodness, 'beauty' in some translations) to this flower: lovely, and gone quickly.

Jeremiah 48:9 צִ֣יץ salt

Put salt on Moab, for she will be laid waste; her cities will become desolate, with no one to dwell in them.