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יָעֵן

ya.en

ostrich

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Strong’s H3283Noun, feminine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

ostriches1

In the text

Lamentations 4:3כַּיְעֵנִים
Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[יָעֵן] n.[m.] ostrich (i.e. voracious one?);—only La 4:3 Kt

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.