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# עֲטַלֵּף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5847

**bat** — 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

bat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5847/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֲטַלֵּף: bat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5847/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] bat (quadrilit., Ges§ 85 w Sta§ 243, 8; NH id.; Ph. οθολαβαδ GesMon. Ph. 391; LewyFremdw. 17 cp. ἀττέλεβος, name of a locust in N. Africa Herod. iv. 172);—י׳ abs. Lv 11:19 (H), = Dt 14:18 (unclean creature); pl. עֲטַלֵּפִים Is 2:20.

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 14:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.14.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.14.18/#tree)

וְהַ֣חֲסִידָ֔ה וְהָאֲנָפָ֖ה לְמִינָ֑הּ וְהַדּוּכִיפַ֖ת וְהָעֲטַלֵּֽף׃

*Word for word:* and the stork and the heron to kind its and the hoopoe and the bat

*JPS 1917:* and the stork, and the heron after its kinds, and the hoopoe, and the bat.

[Leviticus 11:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.19/#tree)

וְאֵת֙ הַחֲסִידָ֔ה הָאֲנָפָ֖ה לְמִינָ֑הּ וְאֶת־הַדּוּכִיפַ֖ת וְאֶת־הָעֲטַלֵּֽף׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the stork the heron to kind its and (et) the hoopoe and (et) the bat

*JPS 1917:* and the stork, and the heron after its kinds, and the hoopoe, and the bat.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5847.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5847/): 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).