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# אִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H338

**jackal** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

jackal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/338/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אִי²: n.m. jackal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/338/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. jackal (howler, for\* אָוִי v. BaNB 188, cf. Arabic اِبْنُ آوَى, whence ܒ̈ܢܳܬ ܐܰܘܰܝ )—pl. אִיִּים, Is 13:22; 34:14; Je 50:39 (inhabitant of desert, ruin).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: hyenas (3).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 34:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.34.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.34.14/#tree)

וּפָגְשׁ֤וּ צִיִּים֙ אֶת־אִיִּ֔ים וְשָׂעִ֖יר עַל־רֵעֵ֣הוּ יִקְרָ֑א אַךְ־שָׁם֙ הִרְגִּ֣יעָה לִּילִ֔ית וּמָצְאָ֥ה לָ֖הּ מָנֽוֹחַ׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.meet desert-dwellers (et) hyenas and goat to companion its it.will.call surely there it.will.rest \[the\].night-creature and it.will.find for itself a.resting.place

*JPS 1917:* And the wild-cats shall meet with the jackals, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; yea, the night-monster shall repose there, and shall find her a place of rest.

[Isaiah 13:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.13.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.13.22/#tree)

וְעָנָ֤ה אִיִּים֙ בְּאַלְמנוֹתָ֔יווְתַנִּ֖ים בְּהֵ֣יכְלֵי עֹ֑נֶג וְקָר֤וֹב לָבוֹא֙ עִתָּ֔הּ וְיָמֶ֖יהָ לֹ֥א יִמָּשֵֽׁכוּ׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.sing hyenas in palaces its and jackals in.\[the\] palaces of.delight and.\[is\] near to go time its and days its not they.will.be.prolonged

*JPS 1917:* And jackals shall howl in their castles, and wild-dogs in the pleasant palaces; and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/338.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/338/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).