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H2223

זַרְזִיר

zar.zirH:N-M

greyhound

1) girded, girt, alert, used with mo.ten (מׇתְנַ֫יִם "loin" H4975) in Pr 30:31 1a) perhaps an extinct animal, exact meaning unknown

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

זַרְזִיר adjective girded, girt (compare BaNB 206) — only construct Prov 30:31 זַרְזִיר מָתְנַיִם אוֺתָֿ֑יִו that which is girt in the loins, etc., named with lion, he-goat, and king, as stately in motion. Perhaps = grey-hound Ew Bö De and others, or war-horse Bo Ges Hi and others; Vrss. cock, Talmud raven, see De Now (Late Hebrew זַרְזִיר starling (war-horse only in interpretation of Prov 30:31), Aramaic ; Lexicons also starling, in Arabic , perhaps loan-word Others derive from a √זרר, see above)

זַרְזִיר Prov 30:31 see below III. זוּר.

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