Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #2106 - זָוִית zavith (a corner)

Original Word:	זָוִית
Transliteration:	zavith
Definition:	a corner
Part of Speech:	Noun Feminine
Phonetic Spelling:	(zaw-veeth')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

cornerstone

Apparently from the same root as Ziv (in the sense of prominence); an angle (as projecting), i.e. (by implication) a corner-column (or anta) -- corner(stone).

see HEBREW Ziv

Englishman's Concordance

1) corner
Part of Speech: noun feminine plural
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: apparently from the same root as H2099 (in the sense of prominence)
Same Word by TWOT Number: 534a

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[זָוִית] noun femininecorner (late (Aramaic זָוִיתָא,

(often for Hebrew מִּנָּה, מִקְצוֺעַ), hence, as loan-word (Frä^{Aramaic Fremdw. 11, 168}) Arabic

); — Plural absolute זָוִיּוֺתPsalm 144:12; construct זָוִיֹּתZechariah 9:15; — וּמָֽלְאוּ כַמִּזְרָק כְּזָוִיֹּת מִוְבֵּךְַZechariah 9:15 simil. of warriors streaming with blood, see Leviticus 1:5,11 etc.; ׳בְּנוֺתֵינוּ כְּז׳וגוPsalm 144:12out daughters like corner (-pillar)s, carved (so Che and others, but see II. חטב) in palace-fashion.

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 2106. זָוִיּוֹת (zavith) — 2 Occurrences

Psalm 144:12
HEB:בִּֽנְעוּרֵ֫יהֶ֥ם בְּנוֹתֵ֥ינוּ כְזָוִיֹּ֑ת מְ֝חֻטָּב֗וֹת תַּבְנִ֥ית
NAS: And our daughters as corner pillars fashioned
KJV: [that] our daughters [may be] as corner stones, polished
INT: their youth and our daughters corner fashioned the similitude

Zechariah 9:15
HEB:וּמָֽלְאוּ֙ כַּמִּזְרָ֔ק כְּזָוִיּ֖וֹת מִזְבֵּֽחַ׃
NAS: like a [sacrificial] basin, [Drenched] like the corners of the altar.
KJV: like bowls, [and] as the corners of the altar.
INT: will be filled A basin the corners of the altar

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