Hebrew noun (Aramaic, masculine) · H6853
צְפַר
tsephartsef-ar'
bird
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tsᵉphar
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6853is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6853
a bird.
The King James renders it: bird.
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
tsephar is rendered "bird". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Four of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Daniel 4:12Its leaves were beautiful, its fruit was abundant, and upon it was food for all. Under it the beasts of the field found shelter, in its branches the birds of the air nested, and from it every creature was fed.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Its leaves were beautiful, its fruit was abundant, and upon it was food for all. Under it the beasts of the field found shelter, in its branches the birds of the air nested, and from it every creature was fed.
Daniel 4:12צִפֲּרֵ֣י
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's four uses are in Daniel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- birds of2
- and birds the1
- like birds1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| צְפַרְדֵּעַ | tsephardea | frog | Uses13 |
All 4, 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
- וְצִפְּרַיָּ֖א1
- כְצִפְּרִֽין׃1
- צִפֲּרֵ֣י1
- צִפֲּרֵ֥י1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)2ANcmpc
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)1AC/Ncmpd/Ta
- preposition + noun · masculine plural1AR/Ncmpa
Daniel
four uses
Its leaves were beautiful, its fruit was abundant, and upon it was food for all. Under it the beasts of the field found shelter, in its branches the birds of the air nested, and from it every creature was fed.
- צִפֲּרֵ֣יtzipareinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: birds of
He called out in a loud voice: ‘Cut down the tree and chop off its branches; strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the beasts flee from under it, and the birds from its branches.
- וְצִפְּרַיָּ֖אvetziperaiya'conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: and birds the
whose foliage was beautiful and whose fruit was abundant, providing food for all, under which the beasts of the field lived, and in whose branches the birds of the air nested—
- צִפֲּרֵ֥יtzipareinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: birds of
At that moment the sentence against Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled. He was driven away from mankind. He ate grass like an ox, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle and his nails like the claws of a bird.
- כְצִפְּרִֽין׃khetziperinpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: like birds
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.