תַּיִשׁ

tayish · male goat

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H8495 · appears 4 times in the Bible

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What it means

tayish (תַּיִשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “male goat”.

How to say it

ta·yish

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. The adult male of the goat, given as a gift or as tribute.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • male goats ×3
  • male goat ×1

Where it appears

  • Genesis 30:35

    On that day he removed the male goats that were striped and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white on it, and every dark one among the lambs, and he gave them into the hands of his sons.

  • Genesis 32:14

    two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

  • 2 Chronicles 17:11

    From the Philistines some were bringing to Jehoshaphat tribute and silver as a load; also the Arabs were bringing him sheep and goats: rams, seven thousand and seven hundred, and male goats, seven thousand and seven hundred.

  • Proverbs 30:31

    the one girded at the loins, or the male goat, and a king with his troop.