Aramaic word · H6853
צְפַר
khetziperin
bird
A Biblical Aramaic word, from the parts of the Old Testament written in Aramaic. Why Aramaic?
Appears 4 times in 4 verses of the Aramaic of the Old Testament. ·
What it means
bird
Aramaic of tsip.por (צִפּוֹר "bird" H6833)
Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).
Where it appears
Daniel · 4
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Daniel 4:12 צִפֲּרֵ֣י [the] birds of
Its leaves were beautiful, its fruit was abundant, and upon it was food for all. Under it the beasts of the field found shelter, in its branches the birds of the air nested, and from it every creature was fed.
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Daniel 4:14 וְצִפְּרַיָּ֖א and birds the
He called out in a loud voice: ‘Cut down the tree and chop off its branches; strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the beasts flee from under it, and the birds from its branches.
Here: 'And the birds': birds of every kind, the 'birds of the heavens' that lived in the branches (4:12). The sentence takes its verb 'flee' from the first half.
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Daniel 4:21 צִפֲּרֵ֥י [the] birds of
whose foliage was beautiful and whose fruit was abundant, providing food for all, under which the beasts of the field lived, and in whose branches the birds of the air nested—
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Daniel 4:33 כְצִפְּרִֽין׃ [were] like birds
At that moment the sentence against Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled. He was driven away from mankind. He ate grass like an ox, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle and his nails like the claws of a bird.
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