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Strong's #5693 - עָגוּר
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
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- name of a bird
- perhaps a thrush, swallow, crane
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this Strong's Number
cry. I, II, III. עַד see I. עדה. עֵד see עוד.
עֹד see עוֺד. עִדֹּא see עדד. below,
עדד (√ of following; compare Arabic 
count, reckon, 
number, period; Aramaic עִדָּנָא time).
עָגוּר masc. adj. gyrating, wheeling, flying in circles, from the root עָגַר, which see. It is
(a) epith. of the swallow, Isaiah 38:14, כְּסוּס עָגוּר “like a swallow wheeling in circles” [chirping, chattering, twittering, is the meaning given in Thes.] (LXX. omit עָגוּר; Syr. render, chattering swallow).
(b) poet. for the swallow itself, Jeremiah 8:7. Compare דְּרוֹר, the etymology of which is very similar. Bochart (Hieroz. ii. 68, seq.) regards the word עָגוּר as signifying the crane; but his arguments have but little weight. This meaning is principally refuted by the passage referred to in Isaiah, which Bochart renders “as the swallow, and as the crane,” a sense which would have been expressed by כַּסּוּס וְכֶעָגוּר Both words being without the article clearly shews that the first is a substantive, and the second its epithet; compare כְּקֵן מְשֻׁלָּח Isaiah 16:2 כְּמֹץ עֹבֵר 29:5 כְּנַחַל שׁוֹטֵף 30:28. Compare page 212, B.
