Words the Bible translates as owl
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 3 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- kosכּוֹסa small nocturnal bird on the Bible's list of birds forbidden as food, most likely some kind of owl.
+1 more meaning
- an ordinary drinking cup, and in the Psalms and the Prophets the fixed image of a cup that God hands someone to drink, so that what is in the cup is that person's due, whether judgment, comfort, or blessing.
- ya'anahיַעֲנָהa wild bird of the empty desert and the ruined city, traditionally identified as the ostrich
- yanshuphיַנְשׁוּףowlnot studied yet
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