Claw
Claw
(, 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 , strong ones,
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Claw
CLAW.In Dan 4:33 claw means a birds claw; but in Deu 14:6 and Zec 11:16 it has the obsolete meaning of an animals hoof.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Claw
klo (, parsah, literally, hoof): One of the marks of a clean animal is stated Thus: Every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, ye shall eat (Deu 14:6 the King James Version; the Revised Version (British and American) hath the hoof cloven in two). See CHEW; CUD. the King James Version uses the word claws where the Revised Version (British and American) supplies hoofs in Zec 11:16, and will tear their hoofs in pieces, as the sheep are being overdriven. In the only other passage containing the word (Dan 4:33) there is no Hebrew equivalent in the original – his nails like birds’ (claws).