qo.re denotes a bird portrayed as hunted in the mountains and used in a comparison about an unhatched brood.

The two verses use qo.re for a bird: in one it is the quarry of a mountain hunt, and in the other it introduces a comparison involving gathering a brood not hatched by it.

1. Bird in hunting and comparative imagery · dominant

   Both occurrences are common masculine singular absolute nouns. In 1 Samuel 26:20 the APB renders a king seeking a flea "as one hunts a partridge in the mountains"; in Jeremiah 17:11 it renders a comparison with a bird that "gathers a brood it did not hatch."

   1 Samuel 26:20Jeremiah 17:11

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term as "a partridge" in both verses, once in a hunting comparison and once in an illustration about a brood. These renderings confirm the verse-level imagery rather than isolate every feature of the Hebrew term.