Ostrich
יַעֲנָהStrong’s H3284yaanah (ya-a-nah)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yaanah is the Hebrew word usually translated “ostrich”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,”
Meaning
- An unclean birdowl, ostrich, literally translated as "daughters of the owl" · perhaps an extinct bird, exact meaning unknown
How it's translated
- an ostrich 6
- the ostrich 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 3
- Leviticus 1
- Deuteronomy 1
- Job 1
- Jeremiah 1
- Micah 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 14:15And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
- Job 30:29I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
- Isaiah 13:21But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
- Isaiah 34:13And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
- Isaiah 43:20The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.
- Jeremiah 50:39Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
Hebrew dictionary
יַעֲנָה yaanah · ostrich
1) an unclean bird 1a) owl, ostrich, literally translated as "daughters of the owl" 1b) perhaps an extinct bird, exact meaning unknown
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.