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# צִפּוֹר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6833

**bird** — used 40 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

bird [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6833/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צִפּוֹר: n.f. bird [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6833/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. Am 3:5 (m. ψ 102:8, cf. KöSynt.§ 252 a, so 104:17, yet cf. AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 71), bird;—abs. צִפּוֹר Ho 11:11 + 15 times, צִפֹּר Gn 15:10 + 11 times, cstr. צִפּוֹר Dt 4:17 + 5 times, צִפֹּר ψ 8:9; pl. צִפֳּרִים Lv 14:4 + 5 times;— single bird, Am 3:5; Ho 11:11 (sim.; ‖ יוֹנָה), La 3:52; Jb 40:29 ψ 102:8; 124:7 Pr 6:5; 7:23; 26:2; 27:8 (all sim.), Lv 14:5 + 10 times Ps. 84:4; כָּל־צ׳ כָּנָף Dt 4:17, כָּל־צ׳ טְהוֹרָה 14:11 (כל distrib.); קַן־צ׳ 22:6 bird’s nest, קוֹל הַצּ׳ Ec 12:4; pl. Is 31:5 (sim.), Ne 5:18; Lv 14:4 (שְׁתֵּי צִפֳּרִים, in purif.; cf. WeHeid. 2. 171 RSSem. i. 402, 2nd ed. 422), v 49 (id.), ψ 104:17 Ec 9:12. less often coll., either def. Gn 15:10 (two), or indef. ψ 11:1 (fig.), צִפֹּר שָׁמַיִם 8:9, especially צ׳ (כָּל־)כָּנָף Ez 39:17 ψ 148:10, כֹּל צ׳ כָּל־כָּנָף Gn 7:14; Ez 17:23, also redund. c. עַיִט, עֵיט צ׳ כָּל־כָּנָף Ez 39:4 birds of prey of all kinds.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 30 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 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: bird (16); a bird (9); birds (5).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 14:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.14.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.14.11/#tree)

כָּל־צִפּ֥וֹר טְהֹרָ֖ה תֹּאכֵֽלוּ׃

*Word for word:* any bird clean you.will.eat

*JPS 1917:* Of all clean birds ye may eat.

[Psalms 102:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.102.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.102.8/#tree)

שָׁקַ֥דְתִּי וָאֶֽהְיֶ֑ה כְּ֝צִפּ֗וֹר בּוֹדֵ֥ד עַל־גָּֽג׃

*Word for word:* I.am.wakeful and I.have.become like a.bird isolated on a.roof

*JPS 1917:* I watch, and am become like a sparrow that is alone upon the housetop.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6833/): 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).