דָּאָה
dâʼâh · H1676 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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black kite
A dark brown bird of prey with a greyish head and a long V-shaped tail that flies relatively low and slowly, feeds on insects, frogs, lizards, food scraps from human dwellings, and dead fish or other dead animals, and is unclean and therefore not to be eaten
ExamplesLeviticus 11:14 the red kite, the falcon in its kind,
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- נֶשֶׁר nesher · H5404 · large bird of prey, eagle, vulture
- Another large bird of prey in Hebrew, often translated 'eagle' but also referring to vultures. Both נֶשֶׁר and דָּאָה appear in the Levitical unclean bird lists as distinct species of large raptors, representing overlapping but distinguishable birds in the same semantic field.
- עׇזְנִיָּה ʻoznîyâh · H5822 · black vulture
- Another bird of prey listed among the unclean birds in Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14, typically identified as an osprey or a type of vulture/eagle. Represents a distinct but related species within the raptor category.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Birds001001002005
- The noun denotes a bird of prey, the red kite, listed among the unclean birds forbidden as food in the dietary laws.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1676. daah דָּאָה noun feminine a bird of prey, possibly kite (ᵑ9 Saad BoHieroz. ii. 191…
דָּאָה noun feminine a bird of prey, possibly kite (ᵑ9 Saad BoHieroz. ii. 191 Di Lev 11:14; Aramaic דַּיְתָא, ; Late Hebrew דַּיָּה of different birds of prey; name probably from flying, swooping), Lev 11:14 forbidden as food; compare also Deu 14:13 והַדַּיָּה ואתהָֿאַיָּה וְהָרָאָה, where for הראה read הַדָּאָה & strike out הַדַּיָּה; so ᵐ5 ⅏; compare Di l.c.
ר Reš 20th letter; = 200 in post-Biblical Hebrew. רָאָה Deu 14:13 textual error; see דָּאָה
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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