Yaanah יַעֲנָה
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| יַעֲנָה | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | yaanah |
| Strong's number | H3284 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | feminine noun |
| Gloss | ostrich |
| Occurrences | 8 in 8 verses |
| Most frequent in | Isaiah (3) |
Yaanah (Hebrew יַעֲנָה, Strong's H3284) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “ostrich”. It occurs 8 times in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
1) an unclean bird
1a) owl, ostrich, literally translated as "daughters of the owl"
1b) perhaps an extinct bird, exact meaning unknown
1a) owl, ostrich, literally translated as "daughters of the owl"
1b) perhaps an extinct bird, exact meaning unknown
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| BSB | ostriches (5), ostrich (3) |
|---|
Verses
Every verse with Yaanah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Leviticus
- Leviticus 11:16And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,
Deuteronomy
- Deuteronomy 14:15And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,
Job
- Job 30:29I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.
Isaiah
- Isaiah 13:21But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about.
- Isaiah 34:13And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches.
- Isaiah 43:20The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.The beasts of the field will honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I provide water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My chosen people.
Jeremiah
- Jeremiah 50:39Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.So the desert creatures and hyenas will live there and ostriches will dwell there. It will never again be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation.
Micah
- Micah 1:8Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.Because of this I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and mourn like an ostrich.
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).