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( àֵí , mother), the female parent of young birds (Deu_22:6-7), or lambs (Exo_22:30; Lev_22:27). With the Mosaic regulations of merciful treatment toward these creatures spoken of in these passages, compare the similar ordinance respecting boiling a kid in its own mother's milk (Exo_23:19), and the treatise of Heumann, De legis paradoxe (Gott. 1748, and in his Syllog. Diss. 2; 282 sq.). SEE BEAST.