צִי
tsiy.yi
“wild beast”
Definition
a desert-dweller, i.e. nomad or wild beast
from the same as H6723 (צִיָּה);
- a wild beast, desert-dweller, crier, yelper 1a) a specific wild beast but not certainly identified
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
צִי appears 6 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
But desert creatures will lie down there,and howling creatures will fill her houses.Ostriches will dwell there,and wild goats will leap about.
Look at the land of the Chaldeans —a people now of no account.The Assyrians destined it for the desert creatures;they set up their siege towers and stripped its palaces.They brought it to ruin.
The desert creatures will meet with hyenas,and one wild goat will call to another.There the night creature will settleand find her place of repose.
So the desert creatures and hyenas will live thereand ostriches will dwell there.It will never again be inhabitedor lived in from generation to generation.
May the nomads bow before him,and his enemies lick the dust.
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