1) blossom 2) a unclean bird of prey 2a) hawk, falcon 2b) perhaps an extinct bird, exact meaning unknown Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H5340 Same Word by TWOT Number: 1405b, 1406a
Brown-Driver-Briggs
I. [נֵץ] noun masculine only suffix נִצָּהּGenesis 40:10, see following
II. נֵץnoun masculinea bird of prey, Generic name, including hawk and falcon (TristrNHB; accipiter BoHieroz. ii. 266 ff.; ed. Rosenm. iii. 5 ff., compare NowArchaeology i.116); — unclean bird, Leviticus 11:16 (P), Deuteronomy 14:15 (varieties, לְמִינֵהוּ); bird of passage Job 39:26.
Englishman's Concordance (References)
Strong's Hebrew: 5322. נֵץ (nets) — 4 Occurrences
Genesis 40:10 HEB:כְפֹרַ֙חַת֙ עָלְתָ֣ה נִצָּ֔הּ הִבְשִׁ֥ילוּ אַשְׁכְּלֹתֶ֖יהָ NAS: And as it was budding, its blossoms came KJV: and it [was] as though it budded, [and] her blossoms shot forth; INT: budding came blossoms produced clusters
Leviticus 11:16 HEB:הַשָּׁ֑חַף וְאֶת־ הַנֵּ֖ץ לְמִינֵֽהוּ׃ NAS: and the sea gull and the hawk in its kind, KJV: and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, INT: and the owl and the sea and the hawk kind
Deuteronomy 14:15 HEB:הַשָּׁ֑חַף וְאֶת־ הַנֵּ֖ץ לְמִינֵֽהוּ׃ NAS: the sea gull, and the hawk in their kinds, KJV: and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, INT: the owl the sea and the hawk their kinds
Job 39:26 HEB:הֲֽ֭מִבִּינָ֣תְךָ יַֽאֲבֶר־ נֵ֑ץ יִפְרֹ֖שׂ [כְּנָפֹו NAS: Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars, KJV:Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, INT: your understanding soars the hawk Stretching bird