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H2223 זַרְזִיר (zarzîyr) zar-zeer'
Hebrew
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Strong's Definition

by reduplication from 2115; properly, tightly girt, i.e. probably a racer, or some fleet animal (as being slender in the waist)

KJV Usage: + greyhound

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

זַרְזִיר (zar.zir) — greyhound. 1) girded, girt, alert, used with mo.ten (מׇתְנַ֫יִם "loin" H4975) in Pr 30:31 1a) perhaps an extinct animal, exact meaning unknown

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

noun c

Birds

Collocation: זַרְזִיר מָתְנַיִם

rooster literally: narrow waisted; exact meaning unsure; possibly: = male variant of a dark, brownish red fowl, with orange-red neck hackles, a smallish red comb on the top of their heads, and red lappets on each side under the beak; they have a white spot on their backs near the base of their long glossy black and green tails

PRO 30:31

1 PRO 30:31 LXX "ἀλέκτωρ" VUL "gallus" RSV REB "strutting cock" NIV NRSV ESV "strutting rooster" | NJB "vigorous cock" CEV "proud cock" | NJPS "greyhound"

Reinier de Blois

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

זַרְזִיר adj. girded, girt—only cstr. Pr 30:31 ref

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