Dict: all - ostrich

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OSTRICH - O>@ - a large bird, native of African and Arabia, nearly ten feet high, having s long neck and short wings. It seeks retired places, kjv@Job:30:29; kjv@Lamentations:4:13) and has a peculiar mournful cry that is sometimes mistaken by the Arabs for that of the lion. kjv@Micah:1:8) In kjv@Job:39:13-18) will be found a description of the bird’s habits. Ostriches are polygamous; the hens lay their eggs promiscuously in one nest, which is merely a hole scratched in the sand; the eggs are then covered over to the depth of about a foot, and are, in the case of those birds which are found within the tropics, generally left for the greater part of the day to the heat of the sun, the parent-birds taking their turns at incubation during the night. The habit of the ostrich leaving its eggs to be matured by the sun’s heat is usually appealed to in order to confirm the scriptural account, "she leaveth her eggs to the earth;" but this is probably the case only with the tropical birds. We believe that the true explanation of this passage is that some of the eggs are left exposed around the nest for the nourishment of the young birds. It is a general belief among the Arabs that the ostrich is a very stupid bird; indeed they have a proverb, "stupid as an ostrich." As is well known, the ostrich will swallow almost any substance, iron, stones, and even has been known to swallow "several leaden bullets scorching hot from the mould." But in many other respects the ostrich is not as stupid as this would indicate, and is very hard to capture. It is the largest of all known birds, and perhaps the swiftest of all cursorial animals.
- The feathers so much prized are the long white plumes of the wings. The best are brought from Barbary and the west coast of Africa.

easton:

Ostrich @ kjv@Lamentations:4:3), the rendering of Hebrew pl. enim; so called from its greediness and gluttony. The allusion here is to the habit of the ostrich with reference to its eggs, which is thus described: "The outer layer of eggs is generally so ill covered that they are destroyed in quantities by jackals, wild-cats, etc., and that the natives carry them away, only taking care not to leave the marks of their footsteps, since, when the ostrich comes and finds that her nest is discovered, she crushes the whole brood, and builds a nest elsewhere." In kjv@Job:39:13 this word in the Authorized Version is the rendering of a Hebrew word (notsah) which means "feathers," as in the Revised Version. In the same verse the word "peacocks" of the Authorized Version is the rendering of the Hebrew pl. renanim, properly meaning "ostriches," as in the Revised Version. (
See OWL 1.)

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Ostrich, the @ Unclean and unfit for food kjv@Leviticus:11:13
Furnished with wings and feathers kjv@Job:39:13
Lays her eggs in the sand kjv@Job:39:14
Described as
Void of wisdom kjv@Job:39:17
Imprudent kjv@Job:39:15
Cruel to her young kjv@Job:39:16
Rapid in movement kjv@Job:39:18
Illustrative
Of the unnatural cruelty of the Jews in their calamities kjv@Lamentations:4:3
(Companionship with,) of extreme desolation kjv@Job:30:29

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OSTRICHES @
- General scriptures concerning kjv@Job:39:13-18; kjv@Lamentations:4:3; kjv@Isaiah:13:21; kjv@Isaiah:34:13; kjv@Isaiah:43:20
- The cry of kjv@Micah:1:8

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H3283 <STRHEB>@ יען yâ‛ên yaw-ane' From the same as H3282; the ostrich (probably from its answering cry): - ostrich.

H4754 <STRHEB>@ מרא mârâ' maw-raw' A primitive root; to rebel; hence (through the idea of maltreating) to {whip} that {is} lash (self with {wings} as the ostrich in running): - be {filthy} lift up self.

H5133 <STRHEB>@ נצה נוצה nôtsâh nôtsâh {no-tsaw'} no-tsaw' Feminine active participle of H5327 in the sense of flying; a pinion (or wing feather); often (collectively) plumage: - feather ({-s}) ostrich.

H7443 <STRHEB>@ רנן renen reh'-nen From H7442; an ostrich (from its wail): - X goodly.