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FOWL.—The word ‘fowl’ is used in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] for any kind of bird. The two words ‘bird’ and ‘fowl’ are employed simply for the sake of variety or perhaps to distinguish two different Heb. or Gr. words occurring near one another. Thus Gen_15:10 ‘the birds (Heb. tsippôr) divided he not,’ Gen_15:11 ‘when the fowls (Heb. ‘ayit) came down upon the carcases’; Jer_12:8 ‘the birds round about’ (same Heb. as ‘fowls’ in Gen_15:11), Psa_8:8 ‘the fowl of the air’ (same Heb. as ‘birds’ in Gen_15:10). See Bird.