Hornet
צִרְעָהStrong’s H6880tsirah (tsir-ah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsirah is the Hebrew word usually translated “hornet”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.”
Meaning
- Hornets
How it's translated
- the hornet 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 1
- Deuteronomy 1
- Joshua 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 7:20Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.
- Joshua 24:12And I sent the hornet before you, which drave them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.
Hebrew dictionary
צִרְעָה tsirah · hornet
hornets
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hornet” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HORN'ET, noun
An insect of the genus Vespa or wasp, the Vespa crabro. It is much larger and stronger than the wasp, and its sting gives severe pain. This insect constructs a nest of leaves or other substance which resembles brown paper of a light color. This is attached to the branches of trees, and often of the size of a half-peck measure.
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.