Egg
בֵּיצָהStrong’s H1000betsah (be-tsah)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Betsah is the Hebrew word usually translated “eggs”, “eggs its” and “eggs of”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“If a bird’s nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young:”
Meaning
- Egg
How it's translated
- eggs 2
- the eggs 1
- eggs its 1
- eggs of 1
- any of eggs their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- Job 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Job 39:14Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,
- Isaiah 10:14And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
- Isaiah 59:5They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
Hebrew dictionary
בֵּיצָה betsah · egg
egg
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “egg” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
EGG, noun
[Latin ovum, by a change of g into v.]
A body formed in the females of fowls and certain other animals, containing an embryo or fetus of the same species, or the substance from which a like animal is produced. The eggs of fowls when laid are covered with a shell, and within is the white or albumen, which incloses the yolk or yellow substance. The eggs of fish and some other animals are united by a viscous substance, and called spawn. Most insects are oviparous.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.