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title: נוֹצָה — plumage · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נוֹצָה (5133), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: plumage. BDB 1906: n.f. plumage. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נוֹצָה

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«נוֹצָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **plumage** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 4 times · **Key:** 5133 · **BDB:** נוֹצָה²

### Glosses

plumage (2); feather\[s\] (1); of.plumage (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

plumage [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5133/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. plumage [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5133/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. plumage (cf. poss. Arabic نَاصِيَةٌ hair over forehead, fore-lock of horse, Lane3033; v. also Assyrian na-aṣ kappe);—of eagle מָלֵא הַנּ׳ Ez 17:3 (fig. of Nebuch.; + כָּנָף, אֵבֶר); also רַב נ׳ v 7 (fig. of kg. of Egypt; + כָּנָף); of ostrich נֹצָה Jb 39:13 (‖ כנף, + אֶבְרָה; cf. Di Bu). Here belongs prob. also בְּנֹצָתָהּ Lv 1:16, read בְּנֹצָתֹה (Dr-WhHpt), בנצתו (Sam), or וְ(אֶת־) נֹצָתוֹ (cf. Di) its feathers, of bird for burnt-offering; 𝔊 σὺν τοῖς πτεροῖς, 𝔙 et plumas; so AV RVm; \> with its filth (i.e. of the crop) 𝔗Onk 𝔖 Ges Kn Ke Kal Ew RV, meaning without evidence elsewhere.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נוֹצָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5133/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 39:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.13/)

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כְּנַף־רְנָנִ֥ים נֶעֱלָ֑סָה אִם־אֶ֝בְרָ֗ה חֲסִידָ֥ה וְנֹצָֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].wing of.ostriches it.flaps.joyously if a.pinion a.stork and plumage

*JPS 1917:* The wing of the ostrich beateth joyously; but are her pinions and feathers the kindly stork's?

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[Leviticus 1:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.1.16/)

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וְהֵסִ֥יר אֶת־מֻרְאָת֖וֹ בְּנֹצָתָ֑הּ וְהִשְׁלִ֨יךְ אֹתָ֜הּ אֵ֤צֶל הַמִּזְבֵּ֙חַ֙ קֵ֔דְמָה אֶל־מְק֖וֹם הַדָּֽשֶׁן׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.remove (et) craw its with feather\[s\] its and he.will.throw it beside the altar eastward to the.place of the.fatty.ash

*JPS 1917:* And he shall take away its crop with the feathers thereof, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, in the place of the ashes.

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