נוֹצָה
notsa · feathers
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5133 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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notsa (נוֹצָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “feathers”.
Plumage. In Leviticus 1:16 the sense is debated: it may also be the contents of the crop.
How to say it
no·tsa
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
- What covers a bird's body.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- feathers ×3
- plumage ×1
Where it appears
- Leviticus 1:16
He shall remove its crop with its feathers and throw it beside the altar on the east side, into the place of the ashes.
- Job 39:13
The wing of the ostrich flaps joyfully; is it the pinion of the stork and plumage?
- Ezekiel 17:3
and say, ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH: The great eagle, great of wings, long of pinion, full of feathers, which had colors, came to Lebanon and took the top of the cedar.
- Ezekiel 17:7
And there was another great eagle, great of wings and full of feathers; and look, this vine bent its roots toward it, and sent out its branches toward it, so that it might water it, from the beds of its planting.