יָעֵן
yāʿēn
ostrich
Strong's H3283NounHebrewTWOT 884a

יָעֵן (yāʿēn) is a Hebrew noun meaning ostrich. It appears 2 times in 1 book of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H3283).

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 884a)

Range of meaning (TWOT 884a)ostrich, voracious
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

יָעֵן noun, masculine: ostrich, voracious

ostrich (i.e. voracious one?)

Strong's H3283 יָעֵן: the ostrich (probably from its answering cry
KJV:ostrich.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 884: יען yʿn — daughter of greed, ostrich, voracious, daughter of the desert, steppe, hard, unproductive soil, father of the plains

See it in Scripture

Lamentations 4:3

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