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# בֵּיצָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1000

**egg** — used 6 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

egg [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1000/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בֵּיצָה: n.f. egg [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1000/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. Is 10:14 egg (NH id., Arabic بَيْضَةٌ, Aramaic בִּיעֲתָא, ܒܺܝܥܬܳܐ )—only Pl. בֵּיצִים Dt 22:6(×2) Is 10:14; cstr. בֵּיצֵי Is 59:5; sf. בֵּיצֶיהָ Jb 39:14, בֵּיצֵיהֶם Is 59:5;—eggs Is 10:14 (of small bird צפור) Dt 22:6(×2), cf. Is 10:14 (in simil.); (of ostrich רננים) Jb 39:14; (of great viper צפעוני) Is 59:5(×2) (metaph.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: eggs (5); of (1).

## In the verses

[Job 39:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.14/#tree)

כִּֽי־תַעֲזֹ֣ב לָאָ֣רֶץ בֵּצֶ֑יהָ וְֽעַל־עָפָ֥ר תְּחַמֵּֽם׃

*Word for word:* (dm) it.abandons to the ground eggs its and on \[the\].dust it.keeps.\[them\].warm

*JPS 1917:* For she leaveth her eggs on the earth, and warmeth them in dust,

[Isaiah 59:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.59.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.59.5/#tree)

בֵּיצֵ֤י צִפְעוֹנִי֙ בִּקֵּ֔עוּ וְקוּרֵ֥י עַכָּבִ֖ישׁ יֶאֱרֹ֑גוּ הָאֹכֵ֤ל מִבֵּֽיצֵיהֶם֙ יָמ֔וּת וְהַזּוּרֶ֖ה תִּבָּקַ֥ע אֶפְעֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* eggs of.a.viper they.have.hatched and webs of.a.spider they.weave the.\[one who\].eats any of their.eggs he.will.die and the.pressed \[egg\] it.is.hatched a.snake

*JPS 1917:* They hatch basilisks' eggs, and weave the spider's web; he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1000.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1000/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).