Word

בֵּיצָה

bêytsâh · H1000 · Hebrew · 6 occurrences

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Meanings

egg

An oval or round object coming from the body of a female bird or reptile and containing an ovum which, if fertilized, can develop into a new organism; appreciated as food

Examples
Deuteronomy 22:6 “If you happen to come upon a bird’s nest along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs in it, and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young;
Job 39:14 For she abandons her eggs to the earth And warms them in the dust,
Isaiah 10:14 And my hand reached to the riches of the peoples like a nest, And as one gathers abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth; And there was not one that flapped its wing, opened its beak, or chirped.”

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

3 occurrences in 3 groups

צֶפַעcobra 1
הּher 1
הֶםtheir 1

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

עָזַבto forsake, to leave 1

What is done to itIt is the object

3 occurrences in 3 groups

בָּקַעto split, to break open 1
עָזַבto forsake, to leave 1
אָסַףto gather, to assemble 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

מִןfrom 2
עַלon, upon, over, against 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Body Products001003001002: The word denotes a bird's egg, as the law protects a mother bird found with her 'young ones or eggs' in Deuteronomy 22:6 and Job pictures the ostrich abandoning her eggs to the dust in Job 39:14, fitting this domain's category for products of a living body.

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

בּוּץ bûwts · H948 · fine linen · 8×בֵּיצָהbêytsâh · H1000

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1000. betsah [בֵּיצָה] noun feminineIsa 10:14 egg (Late Hebrew id., Arabic , Aramaic…

H1000. betsah
[בֵּיצָה] noun feminineIsa 10:14 egg (Late Hebrew id., Arabic , Aramaic בִּיעֲתָא, ) — only Plural בֵּיצִים Deu 22:6 (twice in verse); Isa 10:14; construct בֵּיצֵי Isa 59:5; suffix בֵּיצֶיהָ Job 39:14, בֵּיצֵיהֶם Isa 59:5; — eggs Isa 10:14 (of small bird צפור) Deu 22:6 (twice in verse), compare Isa 10:14 (in simil.); (of ostrich רננים) Job 39:14; (of great viper צפעוני) Isa 59:5 (twice in verse) (metaphor)

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

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Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0