Word

צוֹאָה

tsôwʼâh · H6675 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences

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Meanings

excrement

Excrement; produced by humans; source of pollution and impurity; regarded as filthy and therefore associated with sinfulness

Examples
2 Kings 18:27 But Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me only to your master and to you to speak these words? Has he not also sent me to the men who sit on the wall, doomed to eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”
Isaiah 36:12 But Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me only to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, doomed to eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”
filth

Literally: excrement; hence: filthy substance; which renders people dirty and unclean; associated with sinfulness

Examples
Proverbs 30:12 There is a kind who is pure in his own eyes, Yet is not washed from his filthiness.
Isaiah 4:4 When the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and purged the bloodshed of Jerusalem from her midst, by the spirit of judgment and the spirit of burning,
Isaiah 28:8 For all the tables are full of filthy vomit, without a single clean place.

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

4 occurrences in 3 groups

הֶםtheir 2
בַּתdaughter 1
הוּhis 1

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

קָיָהto vomit 1

What is done to itIt is the object

3 occurrences in 2 groups

אָכַלto eat, to devour 2
רָחַץto wash, to bathe 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

מִןfrom 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 6 words

גֵּלֶל gêlel · H1561 · excrement, dung: Both words denote the same concrete substance, animal or human excrement, and can substitute for one another in context.
גָּלָל gâlâl · H1557 · dung, excrement: The target lexeme and גָּלָל both denote excrement or dung, functioning as near-synonyms for the same substance.
דֹּמֶן dômen · H1828 · dung: Both words denote the same referent, animal or human waste, and can substitute for each other in sense.
צָאָה tsâʼâh · H6627 · excrement, dung: צָאָה (tsâʼâh, H6627) (“that which cometh from, out”) is a euphemistic or general term for excrement, while צוֹאָה (tsôwʼâh, H6675) (“dung, filth”) is the direct term; both refer to the same bodily waste product.
פֶּרֶשׁ peresh · H6569 · dung, offal: The target lexeme and פֶּרֶשׁ both denote animal or human waste — dung — and are near-synonyms for the same substance.
חֶרֶא chereʼ · H2716 · dung, excrement: Both refer to bodily waste; צוֹאָה (tsôwʼâh, H6675) extends to broader filth/uncleanness (also in "Unclean" domain), while חֶרֶא (chereʼ, H2716) is more narrowly dung.

Semantic domains 2 entries

Body Products001003001002: צוֹאָה denotes dung or excrement, as of the dung and urine the men on the wall are doomed to eat and drink in the siege Rabshakeh threatens in 2 Kings 18:27.
Unclean002001001066: The word also denotes filth or filthiness more broadly, as of the man pure in his own eyes yet not washed from his filthiness in Proverbs 30:12, and the filth of Zion's daughters the Lord washes away in Isaiah 4:4.

Word family 2 words

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

צוֹא tsôwʼ · H6674 · dirty, filthy · 2×צוֹאָהtsôwʼâh · H6675

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6675. tsoah or tsoah(844b) צֹאָה noun feminine filth; — absolute ׳צ Isa 28:8 (of…

H6675. tsoah
or tsoah(844b) צֹאָה noun feminine filth; — absolute ׳צ Isa 28:8 (of drunkards' vomit, compare קִיא); ׳צ figurative of iniquity, construct צֹאַת Isa 4:4, suffix צֹאָתוֺ Pro 30:12; specifically of human excrement ( = [צֵאָה]) suffix צֵאָתָם 2Ki 18:27 = Isa 36:12. (both Qr; Kt חר(א)יהם, compare [חֶרֶא] p. 351 above).

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Body Products2 occurrences Unclean3 occurrences

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