אֶפְרֹחַ
ʼephrôach · H667 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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nestlings
Young of birds
ExamplesDeuteronomy 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 39:30 “His young ones also lick up blood greedily; And where the slain are, there he is.”
Psalm 84:3 The bird also has found a house, And the swallow a nest for herself, where she may put her young: Your altars, LORD of armies, My King and my God.
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
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- הוּhis 1
- הּher 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עָלַעto gulp 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שִׁיתto set, to put, to make 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- 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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In the other Testament 1 word
- νεοσσός neossós · G3502 · young bird, chick
- Greek νεοσσός (neossós, G3502) specifically denotes a nestling or young bird, while Hebrew אֶפְרֹחַ (ʼephrôach, H667) carries the same core semantic range of young birds/chicks; the terms are direct translation equivalents within the avian domain.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Birds001001002005
- אֶפְרֹחַ names a young bird or fledgling, as the young ones in a bird's nest that must not be taken with the mother bird.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H667. ephroach [אֶפְרֹחַ] noun masculineJob 39:30 young one, plural young ones, young, of…
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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