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# אֹחַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H255

**jackal** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

jackal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/255/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֹחַ²: jackal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/255/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] jackal (Assyrian aḫû DlW) pl. אֹחִים Is 13:21 וּמָֽלְאוּ בָּֽתֵּיהֶם א׳ (‖ צִיִּים).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: jackals (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 13:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.13.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.13.21/#tree)

וְרָבְצוּ־שָׁ֣ם צִיִּ֔ים וּמָלְא֥וּ בָתֵּיהֶ֖ם אֹחִ֑ים וְשָׁ֤כְנוּ שָׁם֙ בְּנ֣וֹת יַֽעֲנָ֔ה וּשְׂעִירִ֖ים יְרַקְּדוּ־שָֽׁם׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.lie.down there desert-dwellers and they.will.be.full houses their jackals and they.will.dwell there daughters of.an.ostrich and goats they.will.leap.about there

*JPS 1917:* But wild-cats shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of ferrets; and ostriches shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/255.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/255/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).