tsits · plate, flower

What it means

tsits (צִיץ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “plate, flower”.

Flower. Also the shining plate of gold that the high priest wore on his forehead.

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. An opened bud of a plant, beautiful but short-lived.
2. The gold piece on the high priest's forehead.
3. What lets a bird fly; here, what would carry Moab off in flight.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• flower ×6
• flowers ×4
• plate ×3
• blossoms ×1
• wings ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Leviticus×1
• Numbers×1
• 1 Kings×4
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×4
• Jeremiah×1

• Exodus 28:36

  You shall make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it, with engravings of a signet, ‘Holiness to YHWH.’

• Exodus 39:30

  And they made the plate of the holy diadem of pure gold, and wrote on it an inscription with the engravings of a seal: “Holiness to YHWH.”

• Leviticus 8:9

  He put the turban on his head, and on the turban, on its front, he put the gold plate, the holy diadem, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

• Numbers 17:8

  And it happened on the next day that Moses went into the tent of the testimony, and look, the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted, and it had put forth buds and produced blossoms and ripened almonds.

• 1 Kings 6:18

  And the cedar of the house inside had carvings of gourds and open flowers; all was cedar; no stone was seen.

• 1 Kings 6:29

  And all the walls of the house all around he carved with engravings of carvings of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, inside and outside.

• 1 Kings 6:32

  And the two doors were of olive wood; and he carved on them carvings of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and he spread the gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees.

• 1 Kings 6:35

  And he carved cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold fitted over what was incised.

• Job 14:2

  Like a flower he comes out and withers; he flees like the shadow and does not stand.

• Psalms 103:15

  A mortal, like grass are his days; like a flower of the field, so he flourishes;

• Isaiah 28:1

  Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower, the adornment of its beauty, which is on the head of the valley of fatness of those struck down by wine!

• Isaiah 40:6

  A voice says, “Call out.” And he said, “What shall I call out?” “All flesh is grass, and all its loyal love is like the flower of the field.

• Isaiah 40:7

  The grass withers, the flower fades, when the breath of YHWH blows on it; surely the people is grass.

• Isaiah 40:8

  The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our Elohim will stand forever.”

• Jeremiah 48:9

  Give wings to Moab, for flying she will go out; and her cities will become a horror, with no one dwelling in them.