STRONGS NUMBER H5860


Word Summary
iyt: to scream, shriek
Original Word: עִיט
Transliteration: iyt
Phonetic Spelling: (eet)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to scream, shriek
Meaning: to swoop down upon
Strong's Concordance
fly, rail

A primitive root; to swoop down upon (literally or figuratively) -- fly, rail.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H5860. iyt

[עִיט‎] verb scream, shriek (Arabic , II. scream, scold, screaming, scolding, Frey Dozyii. 195; Syriac anger, reviling); — only

Qal Imperfect3masculine singular בָּהֶם וַיָּ֫עַט1 Samuel 25:14 and he screamed at them (of Nabal).

[עִיט‎] verb denominative dart greedily (like a bird of prey); —

Qal Imperfect3masculine singular וַיַּ֫עַט‎ Qr (Kt:erroneous ויעשׂ‎) 1 Samuel 14:32 and the people darted greedily upon the spoil (אֶלהַֿשָּׁלָל‎, so 2 masculine singular וַתַּ֫עַט15:19 (on forms see Ges§ 72 f f.).