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# נוֹצָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5133

**plumage** — used 4 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

plumage [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5133/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נוֹצָה²: n.f. plumage [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5133/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. plumage (cf. poss. Arabic نَاصِيَةٌ hair over forehead, fore-lock of horse, Lane3033; v. also Assyrian na-aṣ kappe);—of eagle מָלֵא הַנּ׳ Ez 17:3 (fig. of Nebuch.; + כָּנָף, אֵבֶר); also רַב נ׳ v 7 (fig. of kg. of Egypt; + כָּנָף); of ostrich נֹצָה Jb 39:13 (‖ כנף, + אֶבְרָה; cf. Di Bu). Here belongs prob. also בְּנֹצָתָהּ Lv 1:16, read בְּנֹצָתֹה (Dr-WhHpt), בנצתו (Sam), or וְ(אֶת־) נֹצָתוֹ (cf. Di) its feathers, of bird for burnt-offering; 𝔊 σὺν τοῖς πτεροῖς, 𝔙 et plumas; so AV RVm; \> with its filth (i.e. of the crop) 𝔗Onk 𝔖 Ges Kn Ke Kal Ew RV, meaning without evidence elsewhere.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: plumage (2); feather\[s\] (1); of plumage (1).

## In the verses

[Job 39:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.13/#tree)

כְּנַף־רְנָנִ֥ים נֶעֱלָ֑סָה אִם־אֶ֝בְרָ֗ה חֲסִידָ֥ה וְנֹצָֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].wing of.ostriches it.flaps.joyously if a.pinion a.stork and plumage

*JPS 1917:* The wing of the ostrich beateth joyously; but are her pinions and feathers the kindly stork's?

[Leviticus 1:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.1.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.1.16/#tree)

וְהֵסִ֥יר אֶת־מֻרְאָת֖וֹ בְּנֹצָתָ֑הּ וְהִשְׁלִ֨יךְ אֹתָ֜הּ אֵ֤צֶל הַמִּזְבֵּ֙חַ֙ קֵ֔דְמָה אֶל־מְק֖וֹם הַדָּֽשֶׁן׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.remove (et) craw its with feather\[s\] its and he.will.throw it beside the altar eastward to the.place of the.fatty.ash

*JPS 1917:* And he shall take away its crop with the feathers thereof, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, in the place of the ashes.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5133/): 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).