עטלף Bat
Every verse in which this word stands — 3 places, in canonical order, first appearance to last. These are the places the lexicon carries under this word's own entry, counting every form the text writes it in, which is the number on the list.
The atalef — a mammal by its kind, but the Torah lists it last of the twenty among the flying creatures, and it stands here where the text stands it. To the bats and the moles men will cast their idols, says Yeshayahu.
וְאֵת הַחֲסִידָה הָאֲנָפָה לְמִינָהּ וְאֶת־הַדּוּכִיפַת וְאֶת־הָעֲטַלֵּֽף
and the stork, and the heron after its kinds, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
וְהַחֲסִידָה וְהָאֲנָפָה לְמִינָהּ וְהַדּוּכִיפַת וְהָעֲטַלֵּֽף
and the stork, and the heron after its kinds, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
בַּיּוֹם הַהוּא יַשְׁלִיךְ הָאָדָם אֵת אֱלִילֵי כַסְפּוֹ וְאֵת אֱלִילֵי זְהָבוֹ אֲשֶׁר עָֽשׂוּ־לוֹ לְהִֽשְׁתַּחֲוֺת לַחְפֹּר פֵּרוֹת וְלָעֲטַלֵּפִֽים
In that day a man shall cast away His idols of silver, and his idols of gold, Which they made for themselves to worship, To the moles and to the bats;
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Quick answers
What is the Hebrew word for bat?
Bat in Hebrew is עטלף, with a gematria of 189 in the standard method.
How many times is the bat mentioned in the Tanakh?
The word stands 3 times in the Tanakh, first at Leviticus 11:19.
A spelling is not a word. The corpus never writes עטלף bare — every one of its places carries a particle or a suffix on the front or the back — so the spelling above is the word's own headword, and the verses listed here are the only door to it.