בֵּיצָה
egg
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute 3 times (50%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct 3 times (50%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 6 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H1000 appears — 4 distinct verses across 3 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Deuteronomy 1 verse
Job 1 verse
Isaiah 2 verses
- Isaiah 10:14 בֵּיצִ֣ים n c fp and my hand has found as a nest the riches of the peoples; and as one gathers eggs that are forsaken, have I gathered all the earth: and there was none that moved the wing, or that opened the mouth, or chirped.
- Isaiah 59:5 בֵּיצֵ֤י מִ/בֵּֽיצֵי/הֶם֙ n c fp cs prep + n c fp cs + sfx pers 3mp They hatch adders' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, ביצה (bêytsâh) means “egg.” A scarce word — 4 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. Its uses cluster heavily in Isaiah (50% of all occurrences). Scripture first uses it in Deuteronomy 22:6. Sharing its root, it stands alongside בוץ, βυσσος and בץ. Dig into 4-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1000 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,040
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,040 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Isaiah 2 verses 50%
- Deuteronomy 1 verse 25%
- Job 1 verse 25%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 4 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 50%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 25%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 25%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Eggs 4×
- American Standard Version: Eggs 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Eggs 6×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Eggs 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1000 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1000 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1000 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1000 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- egg
Word origin
Derived from בוץ (bûwts) (H948) — fine linen.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
בִּיצָּה
- swamp, v. בִּצָּה.
בֵּיצָה
- 1. [the bubbling,] egg. Bets. I, 1; a. fr.—Sabb. VIII, 5 (80ᵇ) ב׳ קלה a light (easily boiling) egg.
- 2. an egg-shaped object, ball, lump. Ib. בֵּיצַת הגיר Ar. (ed. הסיד) cement (lime) in a lump; Tosef. ib. VIII (IX), 20 בזמן שביצה, Var. שהיא כביצה, when it is as compact as a ball, opp. חבוט.—Par. V, 6; Lev. R. s. 23, end ביצת היוצרים the potter’s lump of clay.
- 3. trnsf. germ, root, esp. קעקע ב׳ to stamp out, to exterminate (the last germ). Y. Ab. Zar. IV, 44ᵃ top. Lev. R. s. 26. Lev. R. s. 11; Ruth R. (introd.) to I, 2; Esth. R. beg.; v. בֵּיעָא pl.
- 4. Betsah, name of a Talmudic treatise, beginning with that word (in Tosefta יום טוב).—Pl. בֵּיצִים, בֵּצִים, constr. בֵּיצֵי. Sabb. VIII, 5; a. fr.—Ab. Zar. 3ᵇ; a. e. ביצי כנים, v. כִּינָּה.—Y. Snh. XI, 30ᵇ bot., [read as] Cant. R. to II, 5 פתפותי בצים הם כאן scrambled eggs are here, i.e. confusion of persons. Y. Shebi. V, 35ᵈ bot. עשה ביצים a. עשה ביצה if the leek has formed bulbs. Ib. VII, 37ᵇ bot. ביצי נץ חלב, v. חַלְבֵּצִין.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms H1000 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בֵיצִ֔ים | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Deuteronomy 22:6 | 1 |
| בֵּיצִ֣ים | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Isaiah 10:14 | 1 |
| בֵּיצֵ֤י | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Isaiah 59:5 | 1 |
| בֵּצֶ֑י/הָ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Job 39:14 | 1 |
| הַ/בֵּיצִ֑ים | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Deuteronomy 22:6 | 1 |
| מִ/בֵּֽיצֵי/הֶם֙ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Isaiah 59:5 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1000, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 4 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 4 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
