Claw

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(1): (n.) The whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails; the pinchers of a lobster, crab, etc.

(2): (n.) A sharp, hooked nail, as of a beast or bird.

(3): (n.) To relieve from some uneasy sensation, as by scratching; to tickle; hence, to flatter; to court.

(4): (n.) Anything resembling the claw of an animal, as the curved and forked end of a hammer for drawing nails.

(5): (n.) A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, as the base of petals of the pink.

(6): (v. i.) To scrape, scratch, or dig with a claw, or with the hand as a claw.

(7): (n.) To rail at; to scold.

(8): (n.) To pull, tear, or scratch with, or as with, claws or nails.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [2]

CLAW . In   Daniel 4:33 ‘claw’ means a bird’s claw; but in   Deuteronomy 14:6 and   Zechariah 11:16 it has the obsolete meaning of an animal’s hoof.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [3]

( פִּרְסָה , Parsah', Cleft, i.e. cloven foot), prop. a Hoof (as usually rendered) of a bifurcated animal ( Exodus 10:26;  Micah 4:13;  Ezekiel 32:11), or of a solid-footed quadruped (e.g. a horse,  Isaiah 5:28;  Jeremiah 47:3); hence for the distinctive mark of a clean (q.v.) creature ("claw,"  Deuteronomy 14:16), or the sharp weapons of a beast of prey ("claw,"  Zechariah 11:16), or the talons of a predatory bird ("claw,"  Daniel 4:33). In one passage ( Psalms 10:10) the powerful, clawed paw of a lion (q.v.) is poetically denoted by the term עֲציּמים , "Strong ones,"

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]

klô פרסה parṣāh  Deuteronomy 14:6ChewCud Zechariah 11:16 Daniel 4:33

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