Strong's Hebrew · H2180
זָנָב
zânâb · zaw-nawb'
tail.
Definition
the tail (literally or figuratively)
Derivation
from H2179 (זָנַב) (in the original sense of flapping);
Appears 11 times in Scripture
“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.”
““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.”
“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.”
“There is nothing Egypt can do—head or tail, palm or reed.”
“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.”
“The head is the elder and honorable man, and the tail is the prophet who teaches lies.”
“He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.”
“His tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are tightly knit.”
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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).