Excrement
צֵאָהStrong’s H6627tsaah (tsa-ah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsaah is the Hebrew word usually translated “excrement your”, “filth” and “excrement of”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee:”
Meaning
- Filth, human excrement, excrement, faeces
How it's translated
- excrement your 1
- filth 1
- excrement of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 1
- Isaiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 30:22Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.
- Ezekiel 4:12And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.
Hebrew dictionary
צֵאָה tsaah · excrement
filth, human excrement, excrement, faeces
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “excrement” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
EX'CREMENT, noun
[Latin excrementum, from excerno, excretus; ex and cerno, to separate.]
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.