Filth
צֹאָהStrong’s H6675tsoah (tso-ah)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsoah is the Hebrew word usually translated “own excrement their”, “from excrement its” and “excrement of”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?”
Meaning
- Filth, excrement
How it's translated
- own excrement their 2
- and from excrement its 1
- excrement of 1
- filth 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 3
- 2 Kings 1
- Proverbs 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Proverbs 30:12There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
- Isaiah 4:4When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
- Isaiah 28:8For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
- Isaiah 36:12But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
Hebrew dictionary
צֹאָה tsoah · filth
filth, excrement
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “filth” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FILTH, noun
[See Foul and Defile.]
- Dirt; any foul matter; any thing that soils or defiles; waste matter; nastiness.
- Corruption; pollution; any thing that sullies or defiles the moral character.
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.