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the wood = forest. The Hebrew word for forest here (miyya'ar), has the letter Ayin suspended (see note on Jdg_18:30). This is the second of four such suspended letters (the other two being Job_38:13, Job_38:15). Read with this letter, the word means "forest"; without it, and with an Aleph instead, it is miyy'ar, "river". The ancient Jewish interpreters took this suspended letter as denoting that, when innocent, Israel would be assailed only by a power weak as a river animal; but, when guilty, it would be destroyed by a power as strong as a land animal. Until the Roman power arose (whose military ensign was the "boar"), it was understood as "river" (meaning Egypt); but afterward the Septuagint, Chaldee, and Vulg, read "forest".