Stork
חֲסִידָהStrong’s H2624chasidah (cha-si-dah)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chasidah is the Hebrew word usually translated “stork”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven.”
Meaning
- Stork
How it's translated
- a stork 2
- stork 2
- the stork 1
- and the stork 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 1
- Deuteronomy 1
- Job 1
- Psalms 1
- Jeremiah 1
- Zechariah 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 11:19And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
- Deuteronomy 14:18And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
- Job 39:13Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?
- Psalms 104:17Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.
- Jeremiah 8:7Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Hebrew dictionary
חֲסִידָה chasidah · stork
stork
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “stork” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STORK, noun
A large fowl of the genus Ardea or Heron kind.
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.