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# אֲנָקָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H604

**ferret** — 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

ferret [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/604/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲנָקָה²: n.f. ferret shrew-mouse [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/604/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. ferret, or shrew-mouse, unclean animal Lv 11:30 (TristrFFP 24; ܐܳܡܰܩܬܳܐ, 𝔗 אקמתא).

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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Leviticus 11:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.30/#tree)

וְהָאֲנָקָ֥ה וְהַכֹּ֖חַ וְהַלְּטָאָ֑ה וְהַחֹ֖מֶט וְהַתִּנְשָֽׁמֶת׃

*Word for word:* and the gecko and the.monitor lizard and the.wall lizard and the skink and the chameleon

*JPS 1917:* and the gecko, and the land-crocodile, and the lizard, and the sand-lizard, and the chameleon.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/604.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/604/): 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).