Lexical Definition

‎אִי‎ ʼîy (ee) wild beast ^H:N-M
probably identical with ‎אִי‎ (through the idea of a doleful sound)

wild beast of the islands.

• a howler (used only in the plural), i.e. any solitary wild creature

1) howling beast, jackal

Brown-Driver-Briggs

II. [‎אִי‎] noun masculine jackal (howler, for *‎אָוִי‎ see Ba^{NB 188}, compare Arabic , whence ) — plural ‎אִיִּים‎, Isa 13:22; Isa 34:14; Jer 50:39 (inhabitant of desert, ruin).

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