Bat
עֲטַלֵּףStrong’s H5847atalleph (a-tal-leph)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Atalleph is the Hebrew word usually translated “bat” and “bats”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.”
Meaning
- Bat
How it's translated
- the bat 1
- and the bat 1
- and to the bats 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 1
- Deuteronomy 1
- Isaiah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
עֲטַלֵּף atalleph · bat
bat
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bat” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BAT, noun
- A heavy stick or club; a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other.
- bat or bate, a small copper coin of Germany, with a small mixture of silver, worth four crutzers.
- A term given by miners to shale or bituminous shale.
All definitions and other forms of “bat”
BAT, verb intransitive
To manage a bat or play with one.
BAT, noun
[I have not found this word in any European language, except in English.]
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.