קָאַת
kaat · pelican
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6893 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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kaat (קָאַת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “pelican”.
A bird of the wilderness and of ruins; perhaps the pelican.
How to say it
ka·at
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
- A large bird with a pouched bill, of desolate places.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Leviticus 11:18
the white owl, the pelican, the vulture,
- Deuteronomy 14:17
the pelican, the vulture, the cormorant,
- Psalms 102:6
I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I have become like an owl of the ruins.
- Isaiah 34:11
And the pelican and the hedgehog will possess it, and the ibis and the raven will dwell in it; and he will stretch over it the line of formlessness and the stones of emptiness.
- Zephaniah 2:14
And flocks will lie down in her midst, every animal of the nations; both the pelican and the hedgehog will lodge in her capitals; a voice will sing in the window; dryness will be on the threshold; for her cedar work has been laid bare.