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title: אֲנָפָה — unclean bird · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֲנָפָה (601), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: unclean bird. BDB 1906: n.f. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֲנָפָה

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«אֲנָפָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **unclean bird** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 601 · **BDB:** אֲנָפָה

### Glosses

heron (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

unclean bird [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/601/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/601/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. an unclean bird (cf. Assyrian anpatu DlHA 33; meaning quite dub.; on conjectures v. Di Lv 11:19) Lv 11:19; Dt 14:18.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֲנָפָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/601/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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

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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.

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