HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H8500
תֻּכִּיִּים
tuk.ki — peacock
1) peacock, baboon, ape 1a) peacock 1b) (TWOT) baboon, ape
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Peacock
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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GREEK · G21219
ταώς
taōs — tukkîyîm
a peacock , Lat. pavo, (Aristophanes Comicus), etc.: metaphorically of coxcombs , (Aristophanes Comicus) (ML)
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(Heb. tuk, apparently borrowed from the Tamil tokei). This bird is indigenous to India. It was brought to Solomon by his ships from Tarshish (1 Kings 10:22; 2 Chr. 9:21), which in this case was probably a district on the Malabar coast of India, or in Ceylon. The word so rendered in Job 39:13 literally means wild, tumultuous crying, and properly denotes the female ostrich (q.v.).
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.