אֶפְרֹחַʼephrôach

young ones, young, of birds (Job 39:30; Deuteronomy 22:6; Psalms 84:4)

Pronunciation: ef-ro'-akh · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H667

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 4 times in the Bible.

  • Deuteronomy 22:6 “If you happen to find a bird’s nest in a tree or on the ground, and there are young ones or eggs in it with the mother sitting in the nest, do not take the mother with the young.
  • Job 39:30 Its young gulp down blood. Where there’s a carcass, there you’ll find it.”
  • Psalms 84:3 Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow builds her nest and raises her young at a place near your altar, O Lord of Heaven’s Armies, my King and my God!
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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).