נוֹצָה
feathers
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
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 3 times (75%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct 1 time (25%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 4 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H5133 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.
Leviticus 1 verse
Job 1 verse
Ezekiel 2 verses
- Ezekiel 17:3 הַ/נּוֹצָ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: A great eagle with great wings and long feathers, full of feathers, which had various colors, came to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar:
- Ezekiel 17:7 נוֹצָ֑ה n c fs There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend its roots toward him, and shot forth its branches toward him, from the beds of its plantation, that he might water it.
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.
The Hebrew noun נוצה centers on the idea of “feathers.” It occurs a mere 4 verses across Scripture. Ezekiel dominates its distribution — 2 of 4 verses. Its earliest occurrence is Leviticus 1:16. Sharing its root, it stands alongside נצה, מצה and מצות. Dig into 4-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5133 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.
- #3,696
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,696 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
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: Feathers 3×
- American Standard Version: Feathers 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Feathers 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Feathers 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5133 across 4 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5133 across 4 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5133 across 4 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 H5133 across 4 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 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.
- plumage, feathers
Word origin
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.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from נצה (nâtsâh) (H5327) — to struggle.
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.
נוֹצָה
- (b. h.; = נוֹצְאָה; יָצָא)
- 1. [growth,] feathers, down. Ḥull. III, 4 אם נטלה הנ׳ if the down is lost, contrad. to כָּנָף; Tosef. ib. III (IV), 18 נוֹצָא. Ib. VI, 11. Zeb. VI, 5 והסיר את המוראה ואת הנ׳ וכ׳ he must remove the crop and the down-covered skin with the entrails that go along with it; ib. 65ᵃ בנוצתה נוטל את הנ׳ עמה ‘with its plumage’ (Lev. I, 16), he must take the plumage that covers it with the crop; Sifra Vayikra, N’dab., ch. VIII, Par. 7 יטלנה עם הנ׳; a. fr.—Sabb. 28ᵇ נ׳ של עזים goats-hair e.g. Leviticus 1:16
- 2. cmp. צוֹאָה) maw containing the faeces (= קורקבן). Zeb. l. c. (expl. בנצתה, Lev. l. c.) נוטלה ונוטל וכ׳ he takes it (the crop) and takes the maw with it; Sifra l. c.
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 4 distinct written forms H5133 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| בְּ/נֹצָתָ֑/הּ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 1:16 | 1 |
| הַ/נּוֹצָ֔ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 17:3 | 1 |
| וְ/נֹצָֽה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Job 39:13 | 1 |
| נוֹצָ֑ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 17:7 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5133, 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
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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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