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title: אֹחַ — jackal · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֹחַ (255), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: jackal. BDB 1906: jackal. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֹחַ

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«אֹחַ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **jackal** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 255 · **BDB:** אֹחַ²

### Glosses

jackals (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

jackal [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/255/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

jackal [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/255/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] jackal (Assyrian aḫû DlW) pl. אֹחִים Is 13:21 וּמָֽלְאוּ בָּֽתֵּיהֶם א׳ (‖ צִיִּים).

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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 (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (9 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֹחַ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/255/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 13:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.13.21/)

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וְרָבְצוּ־שָׁ֣ם צִיִּ֔ים וּמָלְא֥וּ בָתֵּיהֶ֖ם אֹחִ֑ים וְשָׁ֤כְנוּ שָׁם֙ בְּנ֣וֹת יַֽעֲנָ֔ה וּשְׂעִירִ֖ים יְרַקְּדוּ־שָֽׁם׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.lie.down there desert-dwellers and they.will.be.full houses their jackals and they.will.dwell there daughters of.an.ostrich and goats they.will.leap.about there

*JPS 1917:* But wild-cats shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of ferrets; and ostriches shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.

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