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# קָאַת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6893

**pelican** — used 5 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

pelican [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6893/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קָאַת: pelican [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6893/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[f.\] a bird, usually pelican (cf. 𝔊 Lv Dt ψ, 𝔙 ψ (der. by Thes from \[קוא\], קיא (v. Köii. 1, 173, and, on ת, Ges§ 80 g), as throwing up food from its crop for its young); but sea-fowl improb. in ψ Is; NH קָאָת, 𝔗 קָאתָא id.);—abs. הַקָּאָת Lv 11:18 = Dt 14:17, as unclean; קָאַת (van d. H. Gi; Baer קָאָת) Is 34:11; Zp 2:14, as inhabiting ruins; cstr. קְאַת מִדְבָּר ψ 102:7, sim. of loneliness.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: desert owl (3); owl (2).

## 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.

[Leviticus 11:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.18/#tree)

וְאֶת־הַתִּנְשֶׁ֥מֶת וְאֶת־הַקָּאָ֖ת וְאֶת־הָרָחָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the.barn owl and (et) the.desert owl and (et) the.Egyptian vulture

*JPS 1917:* and the horned owl, and the pelican, and the carrion-vulture;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6893.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6893/): 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).