Variegated
צָבוּעַStrong’s H6641tsavua (tsa-vu-a)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Tsavua is the Hebrew word usually translated “speckled”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.”
Meaning
- Coloured, variegated, speckled
How it's translated
- speckled 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
צָבוּעַ tsavua · variegated
coloured, variegated, speckled
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “variegated” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
VA'RIEGATED, participle passive
Diversified in colors or external appearance. variegated leaves, in botany, are such as are irregularly marked with white or yellow spots.
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.