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Used for birds of prey: 'ayit (; ; ). The Assyrian host, type of the anti-Christian hosts (-18, ta ornea; -20), "shall be left to the fowls of the mountains ... and the fowls shall summer upon them." In the sense "poultry," see ; ; "fatted fowl," barburim, from barar, "to be pure." Gesenius translated "geese." Birds in general (ta peteina) ().