Words the Bible translates as jackal

English uses one word here. The Bible uses 2 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.

tanתַּןjackal: the howling wild dog of the wasteland, named almost always in the plural and almost always to say that a place has been emptied of people
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- the great water creature: the monster Pharaoh is addressed as, lying in the Nile, churning it up and fouling his own rivers
shu'alשׁוּעָלfox or jackal: the small wild dog of open country and ruins, named by one Hebrew word that never chooses between the two animals

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