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Hyena
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
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Jeremiah 12:9, "speckled bird." But Septuagint "the hyena," in parallelism to the "lion" in Jeremiah 12:8; tsabuwa the Arabic word for hyena corresponds. Zeboim (1 Samuel 13:18) means "the valley of hyenas." But the Hebrew 'ayit joined to it always means a bird; and "speckled" symbolizes the blending of paganism with the utterly diverse, divinely-ordained law.
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Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Hyena'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/h/hyena.html. 1949.
Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Hyena'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/h/hyena.html. 1949.
