Hebrew noun (feminine) · H3284
יַעֲנָה
yaanahyah-an-aw'
ostrich
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: yaʻănâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3284is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3284
{the ostrich (probably from its answering cry}
The King James renders it: [phrase] owl.
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
yaanah is rendered "ostrich". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Three of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 11:16the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,
Leviticus 11:16הַֽיַּעֲנָ֔ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's eight 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
- an ostrich6
- the ostrich2
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.
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- יַעֲנָֽה׃3
- הַֽיַּעֲנָ֔ה2
- יַֽעֲנָ֑ה2
- יַֽעֲנָ֔ה1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular6HNcfsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular2HTd/Ncfsa
Leviticus
one use
the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,
- הַֽיַּעֲנָ֔הhaiyaanahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the ostrich
Deuteronomy
one use
the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,
- הַֽיַּעֲנָ֔הhaiyaanahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the ostrich
Job
one use
I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.
- יַעֲנָֽה׃yaanahnoun · feminine singulartagged: an ostrich
Isaiah
three uses
But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about.
- יַֽעֲנָ֔הyaanahnoun · feminine singulartagged: an ostrich
Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches.
- יַעֲנָֽה׃yaanahnoun · feminine singulartagged: an ostrich
The beasts of the field will honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I provide water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My chosen people.
- יַֽעֲנָ֑הyaanahnoun · feminine singulartagged: an ostrich
Jeremiah
one use
So the desert creatures and hyenas will live there and ostriches will dwell there. It will never again be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation.
- יַֽעֲנָ֑הyaanahnoun · feminine singulartagged: an ostrich
Micah
one use
Because of this I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and mourn like an ostrich.
- יַעֲנָֽה׃yaanahnoun · feminine singulartagged: an ostrich
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.