H5322B

נֵץ

netsH:N-M

hawk

1) a unclean bird of prey 1a) hawk, falcon 1b) perhaps an extinct bird, exact meaning unknown

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

I. [נֵץ] noun masculine only suffix נִצָּהּ Gen 40:10, see following



II. נֵץ noun masculine a bird of prey, generic name, including hawk and falcon (TristrNHB; accipiter BoHieroz. ii. 266 ff.; ed. Rosenm. iii. 5 ff., compare NowArchaeology i.116); — unclean bird, Lev 11:16 (P), Deut 14:15 (varieties, לְמִינֵהוּ); bird of passage Job 39:26.


3 occurrences

Leviticus (1), Deuteronomy (1), Job (1)