Pelican
קָאַתStrong’s H6893qaat (qa-at)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qaat is the Hebrew word usually translated “desert owl” and “desert owl of”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle,”
Meaning
- A ceremonially unclean birdperhaps pelican or cormorant · perhaps an extinct bird, exact meaning unknown
How it's translated
- desert owl 2
- the desert owl 1
- and the desert owl 1
- a desert owl of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 1
- Deuteronomy 1
- Psalms 1
- Isaiah 1
- Zephaniah 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 14:17And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,
- Psalms 102:6I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
- Isaiah 34:11But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
- Zephaniah 2:14And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
Hebrew dictionary
קָאַת qaat · pelican
1) a ceremonially unclean bird 1a) perhaps pelican or cormorant 1b) perhaps an extinct bird, exact meaning unknown
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pelican” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PEL'ICAN, noun
[Low Latin pelicanus.]
- A fowl of the genus Pelicanus.
- A chimical glass vessel or alembic with a tubulated capital, from which two opposite and crooked beaks pass out and enter again at the belly of the cucurbit.
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.