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# גּוֹזָל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1469

**young of birds** — used 2 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

young of birds [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1469/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גּוֹזָל: n.m. young of birds [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1469/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m.Dt 32:11 young of birds (Syriac ܙܽܘܓܰܠ, cf. Arabic جَوْزَلٌ )—וְתֹר וְגוֹזָלֽ׃ Gn 15:9 pigeon; גּוֹזָלָיו Dt 32:11 eaglet (suff. ref. to נֶשֶׁר).

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a young pigeon (1); ones (1).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 32:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.11/#tree)

כְּנֶ֙שֶׁר֙ יָעִ֣יר קִנּ֔וֹ עַל־גּוֹזָלָ֖יו יְרַחֵ֑ף יִפְרֹ֤שׂ כְּנָפָיו֙ יִקָּחֵ֔הוּ יִשָּׂאֵ֖הוּ עַל־אֶבְרָתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* like an.eagle \[which\].it.stirs.up nest its over ones its.young it.hovers it.spreads.out wings its it takes.it it carries.it on pinion its

*JPS 1917:* As an eagle that stirreth up her nest, hovereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her pinions —

[Genesis 15:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.15.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.15.9/#tree)

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלָ֗יו קְחָ֥ה לִי֙ עֶגְלָ֣ה מְשֻׁלֶּ֔שֶׁת וְעֵ֥ז מְשֻׁלֶּ֖שֶׁת וְאַ֣יִל מְשֻׁלָּ֑שׁ וְתֹ֖ר וְגוֹזָֽל׃

*Word for word:* and he.said to him bring to me a.heifer three.years.old and a.goat three.years.old and a.ram three.years.old and a.turtle-dove and a.young.pigeon

*JPS 1917:* And He said unto him: 'Take Me a heifer of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon.'

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1469/): 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).