סוּס Swallow (sus)
Every verse in which this word stands as the creature — 2 places, in canonical order, first appearance to last. The word's lexicon entry carries more than the creature, so these are the creature's own verses — the row's note says what the other places are.
The sus that chirps in Chizkiyahu's psalm and keeps its season in Yirmiyahu 8:7 — the same letters, and the same lexicon entry, as the horse, so this row counts only the two verses of the bird. At Yirmiyahu 8:7 those letters are what the text writes; the Masoretes read sis there, and that is the form the reader will meet on the verse. Swallow or swift; the identification is discussed.
כְּסוּס עָגוּר כֵּן אֲצַפְצֵף אֶהְגֶּה כַּיּוֹנָה דַּלּוּ עֵינַי לַמָּרוֹם אֲדֹנָי עָֽשְׁקָה־לִּי עָרְבֵֽנִי
Like a swallow or a crane, so do I chatter, I do moan as a dove; mine eyes fail with looking upward. O LORD, I am oppressed, be Thou my surety. .
גַּם־חֲסִידָה בַשָּׁמַיִם יָֽדְעָה מֽוֹעֲדֶיהָ וְתֹר וסוס וְעָגוּר שָׁמְרוּ אֶת־עֵת בֹּאָנָה וְעַמִּי לֹא יָֽדְעוּ אֵת מִשְׁפַּט יְהוָֽה
Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but My people know not the ordinance of the LORD.
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Quick answers
What is the Hebrew word for swallow?
Swallow in Hebrew is סוס, with a gematria of 126 in the standard method.
How many times is the swallow mentioned in the Tanakh?
The word stands 2 times as the creature, first at Isaiah 38:14.
A spelling is not a word. The bare letters סוס stand 22 times in the corpus, which is a different question and often a different number: the same letters can spell a name or another word entirely, and the creature written with a particle attached is a spelling that search never returns. It is here, as itself.
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