Hebrew noun (feminine) · H1000
בֵּיצָה
betsahbay-tsaw'
egg
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: bêytsâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1000is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1000
an egg (from its whiteness)
The King James renders it: egg.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
betsah is rendered "egg". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Three of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 22:6If you come across a bird’s nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, you must not take the mother along with the young.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
If you come across a bird’s nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, you must not take the mother along with the young.
Deuteronomy 22:6בֵיצִ֔ים
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's six uses are in Isaiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- eggs2
- any of eggs their1
- eggs its1
- eggs of1
- the eggs1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בֵּין | ben | between | Uses407 |
| בֵּית הַלַּחְמִי | Beth hal-Lachmi | Bethlehemite | Uses8 |
| בֵּית הַשִּׁמְשִׁי | Beth hash-Shimshi | Bethshemite | Uses4 |
| בֵּין | ben | between | Uses2 |
| בֵּית הָאֱלִי | Beth ha-Eli | Bethelite | Uses2 |
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בֵּיצֵ֤י1
- בֵיצִ֔ים1
- בֵּיצִ֣ים1
- בֵּצֶ֑יהָ1
- הַבֵּיצִ֑ים1
- מִבֵּֽיצֵיהֶם֙1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural2HNcmpa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmpc
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HNcmpc/Sp3fs
- preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HR/Ncmpc/Sp3mp
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural1HTd/Ncmpa
Deuteronomy
two uses
If you come across a bird’s nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, you must not take the mother along with the young.
- בֵיצִ֔יםveitzimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: eggs
- הַבֵּיצִ֑יםhabeitzimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the eggs
Job
one use
For she leaves her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand.
- בֵּצֶ֑יהָbetzeihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: eggs its
Isaiah
three uses
My hand reached as into a nest to seize the wealth of the nations. Like one gathering abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth. No wing fluttered, no beak opened or chirped.’”
- בֵּיצִ֣יםbeitzimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: eggs
They hatch the eggs of vipers and weave a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die; crack one open, and a viper is hatched.
- בֵּיצֵ֤יbeitzeinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: eggs of
- מִבֵּֽיצֵיהֶם֙mibeitzeihempreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: any of eggs their
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.