Wild beast
צִיStrong’s H6728tsiyyi (tsiy-yi)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsiyyi is the Hebrew word usually translated “desert-dwellers”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.”
Meaning
- A wild beast, desert-dweller, crier, yelpera specific wild beast but not certainly identified
How it's translated
- desert-dwellers 4
- to desert-dwellers 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 3
- Psalms 2
- Jeremiah 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 74:14Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
- 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 23:13Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.
- Isaiah 34:14The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.
- 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
צִי tsiyyi · wild beast
1) a wild beast, desert-dweller, crier, yelper 1a) a specific wild beast but not certainly identified
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.