נֵץ
nêts · nayts
a flower (from its brilliancy); also a hawk (from it flashing speed)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H5340 (נָצַץ);
a flower (from its brilliancy); also a hawk (from it flashing speed)
- a flower (from its brilliancy)
- also, a hawk (from it flashing speed)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: blossom, hawk.
Letters
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
- צTsade90
Picture: a person lying on their side (or a fish hook)
- Concrete
- hook · trail · side · a man bowed
- Extended
- to hunt · to pursue · need · righteousness as a straight path
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the seed, life continuing › to pursue the straight path
The seed, life continuing that works to pursue the straight path.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of נֵץ above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
4 occurrences · 4 OT · 0 NT · 3 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and the hawk2 · 50%
- and her blossoms1 · 25%
- doth the hawk1 · 25%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.