[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/%D7%9B%D7%95%D7%A1-2/)

[dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [Biblical Hebrew](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/) / [כ](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/kaf/)‎ / כּוֹס‎

# כּוֹס

Biblical Hebrew

**owl** — 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

owl [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5bc_5d5_5b9_5e1/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כּוֹס²: owl [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5bc_5d5_5b9_5e1/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] a kind of owl (according to Vrss; v. Kn-Di Lv 11:17; wd. perhaps onomatop.)—unclean bird Lv 11:17 Dt 14:16, dwelling in ruins כ׳ חֳרָבוֹת ψ 102:7

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: owl (2); an owl (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 102:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.102.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.102.7/#tree)

דָּ֭מִיתִי לִקְאַ֣ת מִדְבָּ֑ר הָ֝יִ֗יתִי כְּכ֣וֹס חֳרָבֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* I.am.like (to).a desert.owl of.\[the\].wilderness I.am like an.owl of.\[the\].waste.places

*JPS 1917:* I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am become as an owl of the waste places.

[Deuteronomy 14:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.14.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.14.16/#tree)

אֶת־הַכּ֥וֹס וְאֶת־הַיַּנְשׁ֖וּף וְהַתִּנְשָֽׁמֶת׃

*Word for word:* (et) the.little owl and (et) the.great owl and the.barn owl

*JPS 1917:* the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5db_5bc_5d5_5b9_5e1.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5bc_5d5_5b9_5e1/): 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).