עִיטʻîyṭ
עִיט: scream, shriek
Pronunciation: eet · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5860
Meanings
Qal: and he screamed at them (1 Samuel 25:14)
עִיט: dart greedily, (like a bird of prey)
Qal: and, darted greedily (1 Samuel 14:32; 1 Samuel 15:19)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 3 times in the Bible.
- 1 Samuel 14:32 That evening they rushed for the battle plunder and butchered the sheep, goats, cattle, and calves, but they ate them without draining the blood.
- 1 Samuel 15:19 Why haven’t you obeyed the Lord? Why did you rush for the plunder and do what was evil in the Lord’s sight?”
- 1 Samuel 25:14 Meanwhile, one of Nabal’s servants went to Abigail and told her, “David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master, but he screamed insults at them.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).