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McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Claw
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ôִּøְñָä
, parsah', cleft, i.e. cloven foot), prop. a hoof (as usually rendered) of a bifurcated animal (Exo_10:26; Mic_4:13; Eze_32:11), or of a solid-footed quadruped (e.g. a horse, Isa_5:28; Jer_47:3); hence for the distinctive mark of a clean (q.v.) creature (“claw,” Deu_14:16), or the sharp weapons of a beast of prey (“claw,” Zec_11:16), or the talons of a predatory bird (“claw,” Dan_4:33). In one passage (Psa_10:10) the powerful, clawed paw of a lion (q.v.) is poetically denoted by the term
òֲöéּîéí
, “strong ones,”