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title: אַיָּה — hawk · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אַיָּה (344), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: hawk. BDB 1906: n.f. hawk, falcon, kite. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אַיָּה

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«אַיָּה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **hawk** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 344 · **BDB:** אַיָּה

### Glosses

kite (2); of.a.black.kite (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

hawk [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/344/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. hawk, falcon, kite [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/344/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. hawk, falcon, kite (perhaps from cry; cf. Arabic يُؤْيُؤ, a kind of hawk) Lv 11:14; Dt 14:13 generic, cf.לְמִינָהּ \& Di; Jb 28:7 (keen-sighted).

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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 (13 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 «אַיָּה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/344/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Leviticus 11:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.14/)

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וְאֶת־הַ֨דָּאָ֔ה וְאֶת־הָאַיָּ֖ה לְמִינָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the.red kite and (et) the.black kite to kind its

*JPS 1917:* and the kite, and the falcon after its kinds;

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[Job 28:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.7/)

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נָ֭תִיב לֹֽא־יְדָ֣עוֹ עָ֑יִט וְלֹ֥א שְׁ֝זָפַ֗תּוּ עֵ֣ין אַיָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].path not it knows.it a.bird.of.prey and not it catches.sight.of.it \[the\].eye of.a.black.kite

*JPS 1917:* That path no bird of prey knoweth, neither hath the falcon's eye seen it;

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