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is the rendering in the A. V. at Job_41:15 (" the flakes of his [i.e. leviathan's] flesh are joined together, ãָּáֵ÷åּ , have clung, i.e. are rigid), for îִôָּì , mappal', something pendulous (elsewhere only Amo_8:6, for refuse of grain, as that which falls away in winnowing, i.e. chaff), referring to the dewlaps or flabby parts on the belly of the crocodile (q.v.), which are firmly attached to the body, instead of loosely hanging as in the ox.