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Pygarg

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

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White-rump. This is properly the name of a species of eagle; but is applied, in Deuteronomy 14:5 , to a quadruped, apparently a species of gazelle or antelope. So the Syriac version and Targums. Both the Arabic versions refer it to a species of mountain goat.

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Rand, W. W. Entry for 'Pygarg'. American Tract Society Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ats/​p/pygarg.html. 1859.
 
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