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RAVEN (‘ôrçb, Arab. [Note: Arabic.] ghurâb).—An ‘unclean’ bird (Lev_11:15, Deu_14:14), numbers of which may always be seen gathered, together with the dogs, around the carrion thrown out into the valley of Hinnom (cf. Pro_30:17). Its glossy plumage is referred to in Son_5:11; it often dwells in the wilderness (Isa_34:11), and yet God cares for and watches over it (Job_38:41, Psa_147:8, Luk_12:24). The name ‘ôrçb is doubtless generic, and includes all the eight species of the Corvidæ known in Palestine.
E. W. G. Masterman.