צוֹאָה
tsoa · excrement, filth
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6675 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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tsoa (צוֹאָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “excrement, filth”.
Used literally (2 Kings 18:27, in the form that is read) and figuratively, of what defiles a person or a people (Isaiah 4:4; 28:8).
How to say it
tso·a
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
- Bodily waste; dirt that defiles.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- filth ×3
- excrement ×2
Where it appears
- 2 Kings 18:27
The Rabshakeh said to them, “Is it to your master and to you that my master has sent me to speak these words? Is it not to the men who sit on the wall, doomed to eat their excrement and to drink their urine with you?”
- Proverbs 30:12
A generation pure in its own eyes, and from its filth not washed.
- Isaiah 4:4
when Adonai has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and has rinsed away the blood of Jerusalem from its midst by a spirit of judgment and by a spirit of burning.
- Isaiah 28:8
For all tables are full of vomit, of filth, without a clean place.
- Isaiah 36:12
The Rabshakeh said, “Is it to your master and to you that my master has sent me to speak these words? Is it not to the men who sit on the wall, doomed to eat their excrement and to drink their urine with you?”