Lexical Definition

‎זַרְזִיר‎ zarzîyr (zar-zeer') greyhound ^H:N-M
by reduplication from ‎זוּר‎

[phrase] greyhound.

• properly, tightly girt, i.e. probably a racer, or some fleet animal (as being slender in the waist)

1) girded, girt, alert, used with מֹתֶן in Pr 30:31
1a) perhaps an extinct animal, exact meaning unknown

See Greek: ἀλέκτωρ

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎זַרְזִיר‎ adjective girded, girt (compare Ba^{NB 206}) — only construct Prov 30:31 ‎זַרְזִיר מָתְנַיִם אוֺתָֿ֑יִו‎ that which is girt in the loins, etc., named with lion, he-goat, and king, as stately in motion. Perhaps = grey-hound Ew Bö De and others, or war-horse Bo Ges Hi and others; Vrss. cock, Talmud raven, see De Now (Late Hebrew ‎זַרְזִיר‎ starling (war-horse only in interpretation of Prov 30:31), Aramaic ; Lexicons also starling, in Arabic , perhaps loan-word Others derive from a √‎זרר‎, see above)

‎זַרְזִיר‎ Prov 30:31 see below III. ‎זוּר‎.

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