Tsôwʼâh — H6675

Definition

feminine noun

excrement; generally, dirt; figuratively, pollution

1. filth, excrement

Usually translated as

dung, filthiness, filth

Origin

or tsôʼâh ; feminine of H6674

• Tsôwʼ (H6674)

Greek equivalents

• éxodos (G1841)
• rhýpos (G4509)

Occurrences

Tsôwʼâh occurs 5 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 2 Kings (1), Proverbs (1), Isaiah (3)

• 2 Kings 18:27 — But Rab-shakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung (צוֹאָתָ֗ם), and drink their own piss with you?
• Proverbs 30:12 — There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness (וּ֝מִצֹּאָת֗וֹ).
• Isaiah 4:4 — When the Lord shall have washed away the filth (צֹאַ֣ת) of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
• Isaiah 28:8 — For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness (צֹאָ֑ה), so that there is no place clean.
• Isaiah 36:12 — But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung (צוֹאָתָ֗ם), and drink their own piss with you?