H3267

יָעַז

ya.azH:V

be fierce

1) to be strong, be fierce (meaning uncertain) 1a) (Niphal) barbarous (participle)

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

[יָעַז] verb only Niph`al Participle as adjective (precise meaning dubious; Arabic is give a nod or sign, then command, whence Hebrew might have meaning nodding, making signs (not intelligibly speaking), so Hi — Che barbarous, De 'ungeberdig' — which context favours, or arrogant; Thes proposes durus, saevus, and compare עזז) — in phrase עַם נוֺעָז Isa 33:19 a barbarous (?) people, of foreign invader.


יעזיאל, יעזיהו see below עזה.


יַעְזִרִ see below עזר. p. 741.


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