In Hebrew, what is the difference between the verbs "ציר" and "צבע"?

צבע means painted, לצבוע means "to paint"

צייר (better use two Yods if you don't use Niqqud) means drew, לצייר means "to draw".

This is not a silly question at all. As the previous answerer said, it is not always that straightforward word-for-word translation. In this case, it is as simple as that.

In Hebrew, צבע in itself doesn't have artistic meaning.

That's in contrast to English, where "to paint" also has artistic meaning (in addition to the other, mundane meaning of "cover with paint"). That's why you say "a painting", "he painted his mistress many times", and "Leonardo was a great painter".

In Hebrew we use only צייר (and words of this root) for the artistic meaning. So "a painting" is "צִיּוּר", "he painted his..." is "הוא צייר...", and "... was a painter" is "היה צַיָּר".

So, while in English "a painter" has two meanings, the corresponding Hebrew word (צַבָּע) has only one: a person employed to cover object with paint.

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BTW, the word ‎צייר has the same root of the word "צוּרָה", which means "form".

(Related verbs are צָר ("[he] formed/shaped/moulded") and יָצַר ("[he] created"). E.g., "[the baker] created forms of circles [from the dough]" is "צָר צוּרות של עיגולים", and "[the Creator] created/formed [man ...]" (Genesis 2:7) is "יָצַר את האדם" (well, not quite: there you'll see the "future" tense; Interestingly, there's a discussion in the Talmud about why there are two Yods there, but it's not related to @Slus's comment).)

צבע means color.

מצייר means "painting" or "drawing" in context of talking about a male.

for example:

הוא מצייר (Hu Metzayer) means "he is painting", "he is drawing", "he paints" or "he draws".

Its the only use of this word, you can't say this about girls because hebrew has grammatical gender.

צייר (you should write it with two Yods like this: צייר. the world ציר which has one yod means axis) means painter.

צביעה, "painting" reffers to working with color, or colors. You paint something blue, orange or green. You paint a wall. If you paint a picture, it means the picture was already drawn and now you're filliing in the colors.

ציור means drawing in general.

צייר means painter.

צבע means housepainter or color, depending on the diacritic points used.

Not very difficult.

ציר means axis, it is an incorrect way to spell צייר.

It has no difference. Both mean "I am a faggot who got gassed" or "I like to downvote cause I have a big nose"