STRONGS NUMBER H6893


Word Summary
qaath: (a bird) perhaps pelican
Original Word: קָאַת
Transliteration: qaath
Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-ath')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: (a bird) perhaps pelican
Meaning: (a bird) perhaps pelican
Strong's Concordance
cormorant

From qow'; probably the pelican (from vomiting) -- cormorant.

see HEBREW qow'

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H6893. qaath

קָאָת קָאַת,noun [feminine] a bird, usually pelican (compare ᵐ5‎ Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Psalms, ᵑ9‎ Psalms (derived by Thes from [קוא‎], קיא‎ (see Köii. 1, 173, and, on ת‎, Ges§ 80g), as throwing up food from its crop for its young); but sea-fowl improbable in Psalms, Isaiah; Late Hebrew קָאתָא ᵑ7 קָאָת,id.); — absolute הַקָּאָתLeviticus 11:18 = Deuteronomy 14:17, as unclean; קָאַת‎ (van d. H. Gi; Baer קָאָת‎) Isaiah 34:11; Zephaniah 2:14, as inhabiting ruins; construct מִדְכָּר קְאַתPsalm 102:7, simile of loneliness.

קַב‎ see I. קבב‎. Below

I. קבב‎ (√ of following; compare Arabic arch, dome (hence 'al-cove'), vaulted tent, especially tent of honour GoldziherZMG xlvii (1893), 74 f. JacobBeduinenleben (2) 86, 245; Syriac vault, dome, id., vaulted tent PS3466b; so Late Hebrew קוּבָּה‎, specifically lupanar; קוּבְּתָא ᵑ7vault (especially vaulted heavens); perhaps also Assyrian ‡abâbu, shield).