(, ochim’, prop. shrieks, hence howling animals; Sept. , noise, Vulg. dracones, dragons) is thought by most to be a general name for howlers, or screech-owls, which the prophet predicts will occupy the desolate palaces of Babylon (Isa 13:21). SEE OWL. As the parallelism requires some animal inhabiting ruins and uttering a disconsolate cry to be understood, the Rabbins (with Abulwalid) understand the marten, or kind of weasel (comp. Hitzig, in loc.), which has a clear, short, plaintive voice (Bechstein, Naturgesch. 1:28). But the owl is more probable, as it is well known for this peculiarity (comp. gemere, Pliny, 10:16; queri, Virg. AEn. 4:462). SEE OCHIM.<\/p>\n
(occurring only Isa. 13:21<\/span>. Heb. ochim, i.e., “shrieks;” hence “howling animals”), a general name for screech owls (howlets), which occupy the desolate palaces of Babylon. Some render the word “hyaenas.”<\/p>\n Doleful creatures (, ochim’, prop. shrieks, hence howling animals; Sept. , noise, Vulg. dracones, dragons) is thought by most to be a general name for howlers, or screech-owls, which the prophet predicts will occupy the desolate palaces of Babylon (Isa 13:21). SEE OWL. As the parallelism requires some animal inhabiting ruins and uttering a disconsolate … Continue reading “Doleful creatures”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"