צִפּוֹר
tsippôwr · tsip-pore'
a little bird (as hopping)
Lexicon
Derivation: or צִפֹּר; from H6852 (צָפַר);
a little bird (as hopping)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: bird, fowl, sparrow.
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
- פPe80
Picture: an open mouth
- Concrete
- mouth · lips · teeth
- Extended
- to speak · a word · an edge or opening · to scatter speech
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to pursue the straight path › to speak, the word › to fasten and establish › the head, the highest
To pursue the straight path that works to speak, the word that works to fasten and establish of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of צִפּוֹר 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
40 occurrences · 40 OT · 0 NT · 31 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- bird7 · 18%
- as a bird5 · 13%
- birds4 · 10%
- of the bird3 · 8%
- fowl3 · 8%
- of the birds2 · 5%
- every bird1 · 3%
- but the birds1 · 3%
- if a bird's1 · 3%
- also fowls1 · 3%
- with him as with a bird1 · 3%
- the fowl1 · 3%
- yea, the sparrow1 · 3%
- and am as a sparrow1 · 3%
- where the birds1 · 3%
- of the hunter, and as a bird1 · 3%
- as the bird1 · 3%
- and as the birds1 · 3%
- as birds1 · 3%
- like a bird1 · 3%
- all fowl1 · 3%
- can a bird1 · 3%
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.