Word

אֹחַ

ʼôach · H255 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. jackal

    Animal that produces mournful sounds; associated with death, destruction, and devastation

    Examples

    Isaiah 13:21 But desert creatures will lie down there, And their houses will be full of owls; Ostriches also will live there, and shaggy goats will frolic there.

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1 occurrences in 1 groups

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Near synonyms 1 word
אִי ʼîy · H338 · coast, coastland, island
אִי (ʼîy, H338) אִי (jackal/howler) is a more common term for a howling wild creature associated with desolate places; אֹחַ (ʼôach, H255) אֹחַ (doleful creature) appears to denote a similar mournful/howling animal in the same desolation context (Isa 13:21-22 uses both terms in parallel).
Semantic domains 1 entry
Wild Animals001001002001
אֹחַ names a wild desert creature, listed among the jackals and owls that will inhabit ruined Babylon.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H255. oach [אֹחַ] noun [masculine] jackal (Assyrian a—û Dlw) plural אֹחִים Isa 13:21 א…
H255. oach
[אֹחַ] noun [masculine] jackal (Assyrian a—û Dlw) plural אֹחִים Isa 13:21 א בָּֽתֵּיהֶם ׳וּמָֽלְאוּ || צִיִּים).
II. אחח?

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

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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