Wild beast
אִיStrong’s H0338i
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
I is the Hebrew word usually translated “hyenas”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.”
Meaning
- Howling beast, jackal
How it's translated
- hyenas 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
- Jeremiah 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 34:14The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.
- Jeremiah 50:39Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
Hebrew dictionary
אִי i · wild beast
howling beast, jackal
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.