Ostrich
יָעֵןStrong’s H3283yaen (ya-en)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Yaen is the Hebrew word usually translated “like ostriches”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.”
Meaning
- Ostrichceremonially unclean animal
How it's translated
- like ostriches 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Lamentations 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
יָעֵן yaen · ostrich
1) ostrich 1a) ceremonially unclean animal
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ostrich” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
OS'TRICH, noun
[Latin struthio-camelus; Gr. a sparrow, and an ostrich The meaning of the name is not obvious. Eng. strut, Latin struthio, Gr., Latin avis. The primary sense of struz, struthio, etc. is to reach, stretch, extend or erect; but whether this name was given to the fowl from its stately walk or appearance, or from some part of its plumage, let the reader judge.]
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.