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אֹחַ

o.ach

howling animal

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Strong’s H255Noun, masculine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

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Translated as

jackals1

In the text

Isaiah 13:21אֹחִים
But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[אֹחַ] n.[m.] jackal Is 13:21

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.