צִפּוֹר
tsip.por (H6833)
bird
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# צִפּוֹר (tsip.por): The Hebrew Word for Bird The Hebrew word *tsipor* is a straightforward noun meaning "bird" and appears 40 times throughout the Hebrew Bible. As a common term rather than a specialized one, it functions as a general designation for avian creatures without distinguishing between specific species or types. The frequency of its occurrence—40 instances across the biblical text—indicates that birds held a regular, recognizable place in the everyday vocabulary and lived experience of ancient Hebrew speakers. The presence of this word across multiple biblical contexts suggests that birds were culturally significant enough to warrant consistent mention in narratives, laws, and poetic passages. However, the lexicon data provided does not detail which specific biblical passages use this term or in what theological or narrative contexts it appears. Without access to those usage examples, we cannot determine whether *tsipor* carried metaphorical weight, appeared primarily in legal or sacrificial contexts, or held symbolic importance in particular literary traditions within the Hebrew Bible. In essence, *tsipor* represents the basic Hebrew vocabulary for birds as a category of living creatures—a simple, functional term that ancient speakers and writers employed when referring to winged animals in their daily lives and sacred texts.
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they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.
He brought him all these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn’t divide the birds.
then the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two living clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop.
The priest shall command them to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.
As for the living bird, he shall take it, the cedar wood, the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water.
He shall sprinkle on him who is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird go into the open field.
To cleanse the house he shall take two birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop.
He shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.
He shall take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times.
He shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, with the living bird, with the cedar wood, with the hyssop, and with the scarlet;
but he shall let the living bird go out of the city into the open field. So shall he make atonement for the house; and it shall be clean.”
the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,
Of all clean birds you may eat.
If you come across a bird’s nest on the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the young.
Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep. Also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days a store of all sorts of wine. Yet for all this, I didn’t demand the governor’s pay, because the bondage was heavy on this people.
Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls?
the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
In Yahweh, I take refuge. How can you say to my soul, “Flee as a bird to your mountain”?
Yes, the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young, near your altars, Yahweh of Armies, my King, and my God.
I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop.
where the birds make their nests. The stork makes its home in the cypress trees.
Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.
wild animals and all livestock; small creatures and flying birds;
Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.
Like a fluttering sparrow, like a darting swallow, so the undeserved curse doesn’t come to rest.
As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his home.
For man also doesn’t know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.
and the doors shall be shut in the street; when the sound of the grinding is low, and one shall rise up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low;
As birds hovering, so Yahweh of Armies will protect Jerusalem. He will protect and deliver it. He will pass over and preserve it.”
They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.
I will plant it in the mountain of the height of Israel; and it will produce boughs, and bear fruit, and be a good cedar. Birds of every kind will dwell in the shade of its branches.
You will fall on the mountains of Israel, you, and all your hordes, and the peoples who are with you. I will give you to the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the animals of the field to be devoured.
“You, son of man, the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Speak to the birds of every sort, and to every animal of the field, “Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat meat and drink blood.
They will come trembling like a bird out of Egypt, and like a dove out of the land of Assyria; and I will settle them in their houses,” says Yahweh.
Can a bird fall in a trap on the earth, where no snare is set for him? Does a snare spring up from the ground, when there is nothing to catch?