זִיז
moving creatures
‘moving creatures’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H2123 appears — 3 distinct verses across 2 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.
Psalms 2 verses
Isaiah 1 verse
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.
זיז — transliterated zîyz — is a Hebrew word carrying the sense “moving creatures.” It occurs a mere 3 verses across Scripture. More than two-thirds of its appearances fall in Psalms. Debuting at Psalms 50:11, it then recurs through the corpus. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2123 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 →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
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 3 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 67%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 33%
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: Abundance 1×, Wild beast 1×, Wild beasts 1×
- American Standard Version: Abundance 1×, It 1×, Wild beasts 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Creatures 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Creature of 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2123 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2123 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2123 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2123 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses 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.
- moving creatures, moving things (noun masculine collective)
- abundance, fulness (noun masculine)
Word origin
Origin: from an unused root apparently meaning to be conspicuous
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.
זִיז I
- (זוּז or זעזע)
- 1. ז׳ שבעדשים name of a mite in lentils.—Pl. זִיזִים, זִיזִין. Ḥull. 67ᵇ; Sifra Sh’mini Par. 10, ch. XII; Y. Ter. VIII, 45ᵇ bot.
- 2. spider.—Pl. as above. Y. Sabb. XIV, beg. 14ᵇ (differ. in Bab. Sabb. 106ᵇ, a. Tosef. ib. XII (XIII), 4).—[Tosef. Bekh. I, 8 דבש הזיזין ed. Zuck. Var. הגוזין, v. הִגְזִין.]
- 3. name of a fabulous bird (ref. to Ps. L, 11). Lev. R. s. 22, end. B. Bath. 73ᵇ e.g. Psalms 50:11
זִיז II
- (= זוזו, v. זְוִי, זָוִית)an attachment, a projection from the door frame serving as a shed over the entrance, or a moulding projecting from a window-sill serving as a bracket. Ohol. XIV, 1 (difference betw. our w. a. גיזרה, v. גְּזוּזְטְרָא). Ib. 4 ז׳ שהוא סובב וכ׳ a moulding which runs around the entire building (or room) and forms a part of the door frame. Erub. X, 4 ז׳ שלפני חלון וכ׳ a bracket in front of a window. Yalk. Deut. 898 והז׳ עליו אכילה וכ׳ and on the bracket (in front of the palace) are spread eatables, drinks &c.; a. v. fr.—Pl. זִיזִים, זִיזִין. Ohol. VIII, 2. B. Bath. III, 8; a. fr.
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 3 distinct written forms H2123 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/זִ֖יז | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Psalms 80:13 | 1 |
| וְ/זִ֥יז | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Psalms 50:11 | 1 |
| מִ/זִּ֥יז | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Isaiah 66:11 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2123, 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.
Derived from this word
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. 4 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 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 3 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
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.
