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# נֵץ

Biblical Hebrew

**hawk** — used 3 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

hawk [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b5_5e5/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נֵץ⁴: n.m. hawk falcon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b5_5e5/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. a bird of prey, generic name, incl. hawk and falcon (TristrNHB; accipiter BoHieroz. ii. 266 ff.; ed. Rosenm iii. 5 ff. cf. NowArch. i. 116);—unclean bird, Lv 11:16 (P), Dt 14:15 (varieties, לְמִינֵהוּ); bird of passage Jb 39:26.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (4 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: falcon (2); a falcon (1).

## In the verses

[Job 39:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.26/#tree)

הֲ‍ֽ֭מִבִּינָ֣תְךָ יַֽאֲבֶר־נֵ֑ץ יִפְרֹ֖שׂ כְּנָפָ֣יו לְתֵימָֽן׃

*Word for word:* ? from understanding your does.it.soar a.falcon does.it.spread.out? wings its to.\[the\] south

*JPS 1917:* Doth the hawk soar by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?

[Leviticus 11:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.16/#tree)

וְאֵת֙ בַּ֣ת הַֽיַּעֲנָ֔ה וְאֶת־הַתַּחְמָ֖ס וְאֶת־הַשָּׁ֑חַף וְאֶת־הַנֵּ֖ץ לְמִינֵֽהוּ׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the.daughter of the.ostrich and (et) the.screech owl and (et) the gull and (et) the falcon to kind its

*JPS 1917:* and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kinds;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e0_5b5_5e5.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b5_5e5/): 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).