גּוֹזָל
gôwzâl · H1469 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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young bird
Young of a bird
ExamplesGenesis 15:9 So He said to him, “Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”
Deuteronomy 32:11 “As an eagle stirs up its nest, And hovers over its young, He spread His wings, He caught them, He carried them on His pinions.
How it’s used In 3 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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּhis 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לָקַחto take, to receive 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against 2
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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Near synonyms 1 word
- אֶפְרֹחַ ʼephrôach · H667 · nestlings
- General Hebrew term for young bird or chick; broader than גּוֹזָל which specifically denotes young pigeon, but both refer to juvenile stage of birds and are semantically close
In the other Testament 2 words
- νεοσσός neossós · G3502 · young bird, chick
- Greek translation-equivalent for young bird/nestling; used in LXX contexts for young birds including young pigeons/doves
- περιστερά peristerá · G4058 · dove, pigeon
- General Greek term for dove/pigeon; while גּוֹזָל specifically denotes the young bird, περιστερά is the standard Greek term for the species and serves as translation-equivalent in contexts where the age distinction is not critical.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Birds001001002005
- גּוֹזָל denotes a young bird, specifically a young pigeon, as in the sacrificial animals of Genesis 15:9 and the eagle's young in Deuteronomy 32:11.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1469. gozal גוֺזָל noun masculineDeu 32:11 young of birds (Syriac compare Arabic ) —…
גוֺזָל noun masculineDeu 32:11 young of birds (Syriac compare Arabic ) — וְגוֺזָָֽל׃ וְתֹר Gen 15:2 pigeon; גּוֺזָלָיו Deu 32:11 eaglet (suffix reference to נֶשֶׁר).
גזם (cut off, Late Hebrew id., Ethiopic compare Arabic [= Aramaic ]; or possibly [= Aramaic ]).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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