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Fausset's Bible Dictionary

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Isaiah 38:14, "like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter" (rather "twitter"); rather "like a swallow or a crane": sus 'agur . A plaintive and migratory (Jeremiah 8:7) bird is implied by sus; Italian zisilla , "swallow." Gesenius takes gahur as an epithet, "like the circling swallow." Thirteen manuscripts of Kennicott read isis for sus or sis; that goddess having been, according to Egyptian fable, changed into a swallow; a fable transferred to the Greek mythology, in the story of Procne.

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Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Crane'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​fbd/​c/crane.html. 1949.
 
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