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# חֲסִידָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2624

**stork** — used 6 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

stork [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2624/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֲסִידָה: n.f. stork [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2624/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. stork (so called as kind and affectionate to its young)—Lv 11:19 = Dt 14:18; ψ 104:17; Je 8:7; Zc 5:9; cf. Lat. pietaticultrix.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 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, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: stork (3); a stork (2); \[the\] stork (1).

## In the verses

[Job 39:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.13/#tree)

כְּנַף־רְנָנִ֥ים נֶעֱלָ֑סָה אִם־אֶ֝בְרָ֗ה חֲסִידָ֥ה וְנֹצָֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].wing of.ostriches it.flaps.joyously if a.pinion a.stork and plumage

*JPS 1917:* The wing of the ostrich beateth joyously; but are her pinions and feathers the kindly stork's?

[Psalms 104:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.104.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.104.17/#tree)

אֲשֶׁר־שָׁ֭ם צִפֳּרִ֣ים יְקַנֵּ֑נוּ חֲ֝סִידָ֗ה בְּרוֹשִׁ֥ים בֵּיתָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* where there birds they.make.nests \[the\].stork \[is\].fir.trees home its

*JPS 1917:* Wherein the birds make their nests; as for the stork, the fir-trees are her house.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2624/): 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).