Strong's H2179 · Hebrew

zanab

zaw-nab'

a primitive root meaning to wag; used only as a denominative from 2180; to curtail, i.e. cut off the rear

Scholarly Lexicons

Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)

 H2179 [ זִנֵּב ] vb. denom . Pi . cut off , or smite , the tail , only fig., of hostile attack in war  

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon (BDB), 1906 — public domain