Hebrew noun (feminine) · H6880
צִרְעָה
tsirahtsir-aw'
hornet
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tsirʻâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6880is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6880
a wasp (as stinging)
The King James renders it: hornet.
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
tsirah is rendered "hornet". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- One of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 23:28I will send the hornet before you to drive the Hivites and Canaanites and Hittites out of your way.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
I will send the hornet before you to drive the Hivites and Canaanites and Hittites out of your way.
Exodus 23:28הַצִּרְעָ֖ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's three uses is in Exodus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the hornet3
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 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 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
- הַצִּרְעָ֔ה2
- הַצִּרְעָ֖ה1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular3HTd/Ncfsa
Exodus
one use
I will send the hornet before you to drive the Hivites and Canaanites and Hittites out of your way.
- הַצִּרְעָ֖הhatzirahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the hornet
Deuteronomy
one use
Moreover, the LORD your God will send the hornet against them until even the survivors hiding from you have perished.
- הַצִּרְעָ֔הhatzirahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the hornet
Joshua
one use
I sent the hornet ahead of you, and it drove out the two Amorite kings before you, but not by your own sword or bow.
- הַצִּרְעָ֔הhatzirahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the hornet
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.