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title: נֵץ — hawk · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נֵץ (lemma:נֵץ), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: hawk. BDB 1906: n.m. hawk falcon. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נֵץ

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«נֵץ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **hawk** — 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:** 3 times · **Key:** lemma:נֵץ · **BDB:** נֵץ⁴

### Glosses

falcon (2); a.falcon (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

hawk [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b5_5e5/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. hawk falcon [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b5_5e5/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. a bird of prey, generic name, incl. hawk and falcon (TristrNHB; accipiter BoHieroz. ii. 266 ff.; ed. Rosenm iii. 5 ff. cf. NowArch. i. 116);—unclean bird, Lv 11:16 (P), Dt 14:15 (varieties, לְמִינֵהוּ); bird of passage Jb 39:26.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נֵץ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b5_5e5/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 39:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.26/)

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הֲ‍ֽ֭מִבִּינָ֣תְךָ יַֽאֲבֶר־נֵ֑ץ יִפְרֹ֖שׂ כְּנָפָ֣יו לְתֵימָֽן׃

*Word for word:* ? from understanding your does.it.soar a.falcon does.it.spread.out? wings its to.\[the\] south

*JPS 1917:* Doth the hawk soar by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?

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[Leviticus 11:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.16/)

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וְאֵת֙ בַּ֣ת הַֽיַּעֲנָ֔ה וְאֶת־הַתַּחְמָ֖ס וְאֶת־הַשָּׁ֑חַף וְאֶת־הַנֵּ֖ץ לְמִינֵֽהוּ׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the.daughter of the.ostrich and (et) the.screech owl and (et) the gull and (et) the falcon to kind its

*JPS 1917:* and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kinds;

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