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H6731 צִיץ (tsîyts) tseets

Hebrew
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Strong's Definition

properly, glistening, i.e. a burnished plate; also a flower (as bright-colored); a wing (as gleaming in the air)

Derivation: or צִץ; from H6692 (צוּץ);

KJV Usage: blossom, flower, plate, wing.

TWOT Reference: 1911

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) flower, bloom
1a) flower, bloom
1b) shining thing (of gold plate on high priest's mitre) (metaph.)
2) feather, wing
2a) meaning dubious

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

צִיץ (tsits) — flower. 1) flower, bloom 1a) flower, bloom 1b) shining thing (of gold plate on high priest's mitre) (metaph.) Also means: tsi.tsah (צִיצָה "flower" H6733)

צִיץ (tsits) — feather. 1) feather, wing 1a) meaning uncertain

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

noun m · צוץ

Plants

blossom, flower = flower that appears with the new growth on trees and shrubs before they produce their fruit

NUM 17:23 · 1KI 6:18 · 1KI 6:29 · 1KI 6:32 · 1KI 6:35 · JOB 14:2 · PSA 103:15 · ISA 28:1 · ISA 40:6 · ISA 40:7 · ISA 40:8

Clothing | ≈ נֵזֶר

(golden) plate, disk, frontlet, medallion = small plate, possibly shaped like a flower; ◄ made of gold; ► attached to the front of the high priest's turban

EXO 28:36 · EXO 39:30 · LEV 8:9

noun m

Minerals

salt meaning unsure; possibly: = white crystalline substance (mainly consisting of sodium chloride); ► normally used for seasoning or preserving food but it is also sometimes scattered over the remains of a city after it has been totally destroyed

JER 48:9

name

Names of Landforms

Ziz = steep ascent; ◄ in southern Judah near En-Gedi, the shortest route from Moab to Judah, near Tekoa

2CH 20:16

1 JER 48:9 NIV NRSV CEV | RSV NJPS NJB "wings" | LXX σημεῖα (= צִיּוּן?) REB "warning signal" | GNT "tombstone"

Graham S. Ogden

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

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

צִיץ n.m. 1. blossom, flower. 2. shining thing base

צִיץ n.[m.] meaning dubious; only in Je 48:9 usu. wings ref

Bible Occurrences (15)

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