צִיץ
tsîyts · tseets
properly, glistening, i.e. a burnished plate; also a flower (as bright-colored); a wing (as gleaming in the air)
Lexicon
Derivation: or צִץ; from H6692 (צוּץ);
properly, glistening, i.e. a burnished plate; also a flower (as bright-colored); a wing (as gleaming in the air)
- properly, glistening, i.e. a burnished plate
- also, a flower (as bright-colored)
- a wing (as gleaming in the air)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: blossom, flower, plate, wing.
Letters
- 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
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- 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)
to pursue the straight path › the hand that works › to pursue the straight path
To pursue the straight path of the hand that works that works to pursue the straight path.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of צִיץ 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
15 occurrences · 15 OT · 0 NT · 11 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- flowers4 · 27%
- the flower2 · 13%
- a plate1 · 7%
- the plate1 · 7%
- plate1 · 7%
- blossoms1 · 7%
- like a flower1 · 7%
- as a flower1 · 7%
- flower1 · 7%
- thereof is as the flower1 · 7%
- wings1 · 7%
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.