Bird
צִפּוֹרStrong’s H6833tsippor (tsip-por)
Appears in 36 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsippor is the Hebrew word usually translated “bird”, “like a bird” and “birds”. It appears in 36 verses of the Old Testament.
“They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.”
Meaning
- Bird, fowlbird (singular) · birds (coll)
How it's translated
- the bird 11
- bird 5
- a bird 5
- like a bird 4
- birds 3
- like bird 3
- bird of 2
- and with the bird 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 9
- Psalms 7
- Proverbs 4
- Deuteronomy 3
- Ezekiel 3
- Genesis 2
13 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 15:10And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.
- Leviticus 14:4Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
- Leviticus 14:5And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water:
- Leviticus 14:6As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water:
- Leviticus 14:7And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field.
- Leviticus 14:49And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
All 36 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
צִפּוֹר tsippor · bird
1) bird, fowl 1a) bird (singular) 1b) birds (coll) Aramaic equivalent: tse.phar (צְפַר "bird" H6853)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bird” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BIRD, noun
burd.
- Properly, a chicken, the young of fowls, and hence a small fowl.
- In modern use, any fowl or flying animal.
All definitions and other forms of “bird”
BIRD, verb transitive
To catch birds.
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.