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title: אִי — jackal · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אִי (338), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: jackal. BDB 1906: n.m. jackal. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אִי

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«אִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **jackal** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 338 · **BDB:** אִי²

### Glosses

hyenas (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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).

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/338/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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

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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.

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