tsipor · bird

What it means

tsipor (צִפּוֹר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “bird”.

Small bird.

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 small winged creature, such as the sparrow.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• bird ×29
• birds ×10
• Like a sparrow ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Leviticus×13
• Deuteronomy×3
• Nehemiah×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×7
• Proverbs×4
• Ecclesiastes×2
• Isaiah×1
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×3
• Hosea×1
• Amos×1

• Genesis 7:14

  they, and every animal according to its kind, and all the livestock according to their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth according to its kind, and every bird according to its kind, every bird, every winged creature.

• Genesis 15:10

  He brought him all these and cut them in two down the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but the birds he did not cut in two.

• Leviticus 14:4

  the priest shall command that they take for the one being purified two clean living birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.

• Leviticus 14:5

  The priest shall command that they slaughter the one bird in an earthen vessel over living water.

• Leviticus 14:6

  The living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the living water.

• Leviticus 14:7

  He shall sprinkle on the one being purified from the leprosy seven times, and declare him clean, and let go the living bird over the face of the field.

• Leviticus 14:49

  To purify the house he shall take two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.

• Leviticus 14:50

  He shall slaughter the one bird in an earthen vessel over living water.

• Leviticus 14:51

  He shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slaughtered bird and in the living water, and sprinkle the house seven times.

• Leviticus 14:52

  He shall purify the house with the blood of the bird and with the living water and with the living bird and with the cedar wood and with the hyssop and with the scarlet.

• Leviticus 14:53

  He shall let go the living bird to outside the city, over the face of the field; so he shall make expiation for the house, and it will be clean.

• Deuteronomy 4:17

  the representation of any beast that is on the earth, the representation of any winged bird that flies in the heavens,

• Deuteronomy 14:11

  Every clean bird you may eat.

• Deuteronomy 22:6

  If you happen to come upon a bird’s nest before you on the road, in any tree or on the ground, with young or eggs, and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young.

• Nehemiah 5:18

  And what was prepared for one day was one ox, six choice sheep, and birds were prepared for me; and once every ten days all kinds of wine in abundance. Yet with this I did not seek the bread of the governor, because the servitude was heavy on this people.

• Job 41:5

  Will you play with it as with a bird, or bind it for your girls?

• Psalms 8:8

  the birds of the sky and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

• Psalms 11:1

  For the director. Of David. In YHWH I have taken refuge; how do you say to my soul, “Flee to your mountain, bird”?

• Psalms 84:3

  Even the bird has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she has laid her young: your altars, YHWH Tsevaot, my king and my Elohim.

• Psalms 102:7

  I keep watch, and I am like a bird alone on the roof.

• Psalms 104:17

  where the birds make their nests; the stork, the cypresses are her house.

• Psalms 124:7

  Our soul like a bird has escaped from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped.

• Psalms 148:10

  the animals and all livestock, creeping things and winged birds,

• Proverbs 6:5

  Free yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, and like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

• Proverbs 7:23

  until an arrow pierces his liver; as a bird hurries to the snare, and does not know that his soul is at stake in it.

• Proverbs 26:2

  Like a sparrow in its wandering, like a swallow in its flying, so a curse without cause does not arrive.

• Proverbs 27:8

  Like a bird that wanders from its nest, so is a man who wanders from his place.

• Ecclesiastes 9:12

  For also the human being does not know his time; like fish that are caught in an evil net, and like birds caught in the snare, so are human beings ensnared at an evil time when it falls on them suddenly.

• Ecclesiastes 12:4

  and the doors on the street are shut, when the sound of the mill is low, and one rises at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low;

• Isaiah 31:5

  Like birds that fly, so YHWH Tsevaot will protect Jerusalem, protecting and delivering, passing over and rescuing.”

• Lamentations 3:52

  They have hunted me down like a bird, my enemies, without cause.

• Ezekiel 17:23

  On the mountain height of Israel I will plant it, and it will bear branches and produce fruit, and become a noble cedar; and under it will dwell every bird of every wing; in the shade of its branches they will dwell.

• Ezekiel 39:4

  On the mountains of Israel you will fall, you and all your troops, and the peoples that are with you; to the bird of prey, the bird of every wing, and to the animals of the field I have given you as food.

• Ezekiel 39:17

  And you, son of man, thus says Adonai YHWH: Say to the birds of every wing and to all the animals of the field, ‘Assemble and come; gather from all around to my sacrifice that I am sacrificing for you, a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, and you will eat flesh and drink blood.

• Hosea 11:11

  They will come trembling like a bird from Egypt, and like a dove from the land of Assyria; and I will settle them in their houses, declares YHWH.

• Amos 3:5

  Does a bird fall into a snare on the ground when there is no trap for it? Does a snare spring up from the ground when it has not caught anything at all?

And 4 more times.