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# אַיָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H344

**hawk** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

hawk [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/344/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַיָּה: n.f. hawk, falcon, kite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/344/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. hawk, falcon, kite (perhaps from cry; cf. Arabic يُؤْيُؤ, a kind of hawk) Lv 11:14; Dt 14:13 generic, cf.לְמִינָהּ & Di; Jb 28:7 (keen-sighted).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (13 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: kite (2); of a black kite (1).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 11:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.14/#tree)

וְאֶת־הַ֨דָּאָ֔ה וְאֶת־הָאַיָּ֖ה לְמִינָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the.red kite and (et) the.black kite to kind its

*JPS 1917:* and the kite, and the falcon after its kinds;

[Job 28:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.7/#tree)

נָ֭תִיב לֹֽא־יְדָ֣עוֹ עָ֑יִט וְלֹ֥א שְׁ֝זָפַ֗תּוּ עֵ֣ין אַיָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].path not it knows.it a.bird.of.prey and not it catches.sight.of.it \[the\].eye of.a.black.kite

*JPS 1917:* That path no bird of prey knoweth, neither hath the falcon's eye seen it;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/344.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/344/): 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).