Lexical Definition

‎צִיץ‎ tsîyts (tseets) flower ^H:N-M
or צִץ tsits (tseets); from ‎צוּץ‎

blossom, flower, plate, wing.

• properly, glistening, i.e. a burnished plate
• also a flower (as bright-colored)
• a wing (as gleaming in the air)

1) flower, bloom
1a) flower, bloom
1b) shining thing (of gold plate on high priest's mitre) (metaph.)
2) feather, wing
2a) meaning dubious

See Greek: ἄνθος

Extended Information

• Also means: tsi.tsah (‎צ‎ִ‎יצ‎ָ‎ה‎ "flower" צִיצָה)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

Also see: צִיצָה | צִיץ

I. ‎צִיץ‎ noun masculine^{Isa 28:1}

1. blossom, flower.

2. shining thing; — ‎׳‎‎צ‎ absolute Isa 42:7 +, construct vIsa 42:6 +; plural ‎צִצִּים‎ 1Kgs 6:18 + 3 t. 6 (on form see Kö^{ii. l, 60}); —

1. blossom, flower, Num 17:23* (P; of Aaron's rod); (figurative of man Isa 40:7; Isa 40:8 (both ‎׳‎‎נָבֵל צ‎; || ‎חָצִיר‎), compare simile ‎צִיץ הַשָּׂדֶה‎ vIsa 40:6 (|| id.), Ps 103:15, and ‎׳‎‎צ‎ alone Job 14:2 ‎נֹבֵל‎ ‎׳‎‎צ‎ Isa 28:1 (figurative of Samaria), so probably also vIsa 28:4 (for ᵑ0 ‎׳‎‎צִיצַת נ‎; so Marti); ‎פְּטוּרֵי צִצִּים‎, as ornaments of temple 1Kgs 6:18; 1Kgs 6:29; 1Kgs 6:32; 1Kgs 6:35.

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

II. ‎צִיץ‎ noun [masculine] meaning dubious; only in ‎תְּנוּצִֿיץ לְמוֺאָב‎ Jer 48:9 usually (after AW Ra Ki and others) wings (collective) (compare Aramaic ‎צִיץ‎ wing, fin, Thes Gf and others); **Aramaic ‎צִיץ‎ wing dubious Levy^{322 b}; Aramaic ‎נוֺצִיץ‎ very rare; but note Late Hebrew ‎צִיץ‎ filament, small hair. compare Perles^Anal.46, who reads ‎נוֺצִיץ‎ (wing-) feathers (as in Aramaic); ᵐ5 σημεῖα, whence Gie sign-post, reading ‎צִיוּן‎, — or ‎נֵס‎, — (indicating flight).

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