עֲטַלֵּף
atalef · bat
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5847 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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atalef (עֲטַלֵּף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “bat”.
The list places it among the birds because it flies.
How to say it
a·ta·lef
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- An animal that flies at night, which the law counted among the birds not to be eaten.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- bat ×2
- bats ×1
Where it appears
- Leviticus 11:19
the stork, the heron according to its kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.
- Deuteronomy 14:18
the stork, the heron of every kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.
- Isaiah 2:20
On that day human beings will throw away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to bow down to, to the moles and to the bats,