Lexical Definition

‎נֵץ‎ nêts (nayts) flower ^H:N-M
from ‎נָצַץ‎

blossom, hawk.

• a flower (from its brilliancy)
• also a hawk (from it flashing speed)

1) blossom
2) a unclean bird of prey
2a) hawk, falcon
2b) perhaps an extinct bird, exact meaning unknown

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. [‎נֵץ‎] noun masculine only suffix ‎נִצָּהּ‎ Gen 40:10, see following

II. ‎נֵץ‎ noun masculine a bird of prey, generic name, including hawk and falcon (Tristr^NHB; accipiter Bo^{Hieroz. ii. 266 ff.; ed. Rosenm. iii. 5 ff.}, compare Now^{Archaeology i.116}); — unclean bird, Lev 11:16 (P), Deut 14:15 (varieties, ‎לְמִינֵהוּ‎); bird of passage Job 39:26.

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