Strong’s H6893 · Hebrew
קָאַת
qâʼath · kaw-ath'
Origin from קוֹא (H6958);
Meaning probably the pelican (from vomiting)
In the King James Version cormorant.
In 5 verses of the King James Version
- Leviticus 11:18And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle,
- 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.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.