STRONGS NUMBER H6731


Word Summary
tsiyts: perhaps wings
Original Word: צִיץ
Transliteration: tsiyts
Phonetic Spelling: (tseets)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: perhaps wings
Meaning: glistening, a burnished plate, a flower, a wing
Strong's Concordance
blossom, flower, plate, wing

Or tsits {tseets}; from tsuwts; properly, glistening, i.e. A burnished plate; also a flower (as bright-colored); a wing (as gleaming in the air) -- blossom, flower, plate, wing.

see HEBREW tsuwts

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H6731. tsiyts

I. צִיץnoun masculineIsaiah 28:1

1 blossom, flower.

2 shining thing; — ׳צ‎ absolute Isaiah 42:7 +, construct 42:6 +; plural צִצִּים1 Kings 6:18 3t. 6 (on form see Köii. l, 60); —

1 blossom, flower, Numbers 17:23 (P; of Aaron's rod); (figurative of man Isaiah 40:7-8, (both צ ׳נָבֵל‎; "" חָצִיר‎), compare simile הַשָּׂדֶה צִיץ40:6 ("" id.), Psalm 103:15, and ׳צ‎ alone Job 14:2; ׳צ נֹבֵלIsaiah 28:1 (figurative of Samaria), so probably also 28:4 (for נ ׳צִיצַת ᵑ0‎; so Marti); צִצִּים מְּטוּרֵי‎, as ornaments of temple 1 Kings 6:18, 29, 32, 35.

2 shining thing, plate of gold, constituting the diadem on front of high priest's mitre, Leviticus 8:9; Exodus 28:36; 39:30 (all P). — I, III. צִיץ‎, see below

II. צִיץnoun [masculine] meaning dubious; only in לְמוֺאָב תְּנוּצִֿיץJeremiah 48:9 usually (after AW Ra Ki and others) wings (collective) (compare Aramaic צִיץwing, fin, Thes Gf and others); **Aramaic צִיץwing dubious Levy322b; Aramaic נוֺצִיץ‎ very rare; but note Late Hebrew צִיץfilament, small hair. compare PerlesAnal.46, who reads נוֺצִיץ‎ (wing-) feathers (as in Aramaic); ᵐ5σημεῖα, whence Gie sign-post, reading צִיוּן‎, — or נֵס‎, — (indicating flight).