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Strong's #6893: qa'ath (pronounced kaw-ath')

from 6958; probably the pelican (from vomiting):--cormorant.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

qâ'ath

1) a ceremonially unclean bird

1a) perhaps pelican or cormorant

1b) perhaps an extinct bird, exact meaning unknown

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from H6958



Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

Leviticus 11:18: "And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier-eagle,"
Deuteronomy 14:17: " And the pelican, and the gier-eagle, and the cormorant,"
Psalms 102:6: "I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert."
Isaiah 34:11: " But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon"
Zephaniah 2:14: "the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels"









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