Heron
אֲנָפָהStrong’s H0601anaphah (a-na-phah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Anaphah is the Hebrew word usually translated “heron”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.”
Meaning
- An unclean birdperhaps an heron
How it's translated
- the heron 1
- and the heron 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 1
- Deuteronomy 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
אֲנָפָה anaphah · heron
1) an unclean bird 1a) perhaps an heron
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “heron” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HER'ON, noun
A large fowl of the genus Ardea, a great devourer of fish.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.