צִיִּי tsîyîy
Meaning
a desert-dweller, i.e. nomad or wild beast
In the King James Version: wild beast of the desert, that dwell in (inhabiting) the wilderness.
Derivation: from the same as H6723 (צִיָּה);
Where it is used
- Psalms 72:9 May the nomads bow before him, and his enemies lick the dust.
- Psalms 74:14 You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You fed him to the creatures of the desert.
- Isaiah 13:21 But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about.
- Isaiah 23:13 Look at the land of the Chaldeans—a people now of no account. The Assyrians destined it for the desert creatures; they set up their siege towers and stripped its palaces. They brought it to ruin.
- Isaiah 34:14 The desert creatures will meet with hyenas, and one wild goat will call to another. There the night creature will settle and find her place of repose.
- Jeremiah 50:39 So the desert creatures and hyenas will live there and ostriches will dwell there. It will never again be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation.