Lexicon :: Strong's H6833 - ṣipôr

“You may eat any clean bird.

“If you happen to come upon a bird’s nest along the road, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the mother [bird] is sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young.

“Will you play with him as with a bird?

Or will you bind him [and put him on a leash] for your maidens?

The birds of the air, and the fish of the sea,

Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

In the LORD I take refuge [and put my trust];

How can you say to me, “Flee like a bird to your mountain;

The bird has found a house,

And the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young—

Even Your altars, O LORD of hosts,

My King and my God.

I am sleepless and lie awake [mourning],

I have become like a lonely bird on a housetop.

Where the birds make their nests;

As for the stork, the fir trees are her house.

We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowlers;

The trap is broken and we have escaped.

Beasts and all cattle;

Creeping things and winged birds;

Tear yourself away like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter

And like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

Until an arrow pierced his liver [with a mortal wound];

Like a bird fluttering straight into the net,

He did not know that it would cost him his life.

Like the sparrow in her wandering, like the swallow in her flying,

So the curse without cause does not come and alight [on the undeserving].

Like a bird that wanders from her nest [with its comfort and safety],

So is a man who wanders from his home.

Like flying birds, so will the LORD of hosts protect Jerusalem;

He will protect and save it,

He will pass over and rescue it.

Without cause my enemies

Hunted me down like a bird;

“As for you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD, ‘Say to every kind of bird and to every animal of the field, “Assemble and come, gather from every side to My sacrifice that I am slaughtering for you, as a great sacrificial feast on the mountains of Israel, and you will eat flesh and drink blood.

They will come trembling and hurriedly like birds from Egypt

And like doves from the land of Assyria;

And I will settle them in their houses [in the land of their inheritance], declares the LORD.

Does a bird fall into a trap on the ground when there is no bait in it?

Does a trap spring up from the ground when it has caught nothing at all? [Of course not! So it is that Israel has earned her impending judgment.]