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title: כּוֹס — owl · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כּוֹס (lemma:כּוֹס), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: owl. BDB 1906: owl. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כּוֹס

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«כּוֹס» in the Tanakh dictionary: **owl** — 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:** lemma:כּוֹס · **BDB:** כּוֹס²

### Glosses

owl (2); an.owl (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

owl [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5bc_5d5_5b9_5e1/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

owl [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5bc_5d5_5b9_5e1/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] a kind of owl (according to Vrss; v. Kn-Di Lv 11:17; wd. perhaps onomatop.)—unclean bird Lv 11:17 Dt 14:16, dwelling in ruins כ׳ חֳרָבוֹת ψ 102:7

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כּוֹס» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5bc_5d5_5b9_5e1/), 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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[Deuteronomy 14:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.14.16/)

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אֶת־הַכּ֥וֹס וְאֶת־הַיַּנְשׁ֖וּף וְהַתִּנְשָֽׁמֶת׃

*Word for word:* (et) the.little owl and (et) the.great owl and the.barn owl

*JPS 1917:* the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl;

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