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title: קָאַת — pelican · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קָאַת (6893), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: pelican. BDB 1906: pelican. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קָאַת

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«קָאַת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **pelican** — 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:** 5 times · **Key:** 6893 · **BDB:** קָאַת

### Glosses

desert.owl (3); owl (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קָאַת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6893/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 102:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.102.7/)

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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.

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

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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;

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