yaana · ostrich

What it means

yaana (יַעֲנָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “ostrich”.

(in the phrase "daughter of the ostrich"); the identification is debated.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A large flightless desert bird.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• ostriches ×6
• ostrich ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Leviticus×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• Job×1
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×1
• Micah×1

• Leviticus 11:16

  the ostrich, the owl, the gull, and the hawk according to its kind,

• Deuteronomy 14:15

  the ostrich, the owl, the gull, and the hawk of every kind,

• Job 30:29

  A brother I have become to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.

• Isaiah 13:21

  And desert creatures will lie down there, and their houses will be filled with owls; and ostriches will dwell there, and male goats will dance there.

• Isaiah 34:13

  And brambles will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses; and it will be an abode of jackals, an enclosure for ostriches.

• Isaiah 43:20

  The animals of the field will honor me, jackals and ostriches, because I have given in the wilderness water, rivers in the wasteland, to give drink to my people, my chosen one.

• Jeremiah 50:39

  Therefore desert creatures will dwell with hyenas, and ostriches will dwell in it; and it will not be inhabited again forever, nor be dwelt in from generation to generation.

• Micah 1:8

  Because of this I will lament and wail; I will go barefoot and naked; I will make a lament like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches.