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, "speckled bird." But Septuagint "the hyena," in parallelism to the "lion" in ; tsabuwa the Arabic word for hyena corresponds. Zeboim () 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.