H8577aNoun, masculine14 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Job 30:29לְתַנִּים
I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.
- Psalm 44:19תַּנִּים
But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.
- Isaiah 13:22וְתַנִּים
Hyenas will howl in her fortresses and jackals in her luxurious palaces. Babylon’s time is at hand, and her days will not be prolonged.
- Jeremiah 9:11תַּנִּים
“And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
- Lamentations 4:3תַּנִּים
Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.
- Micah 1:8כַּתַּנִּים
Because of this I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and mourn like an ostrich.
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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.