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Onocentaur

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Once it is used without any corresponding Hebrew word, in verse 34.11. Twice, in verses 13:22 ("and onocentaurs will settle there and hedgehogs will make nests in their homes. It comes quickly and does not delay") and 34:14 ("and the spirits will meet with the onocentaurs and howl one to another, and
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for description of the female form. He interpreted the onocentaur as: "its body resembles that of an ass, its colour is ashen but inclines to white beneath the flanks. It has a human chest with teats and a human face surrounded by thick hair. It may use its arms to seize and hold things but also to
556:"Isaiah 34:14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest" 104: 689: 532:"Isaiah 34:14 And fendis, and wondurful beestis, lijk men in the hiyere part and lijk assis in the nethir part, and an heeri schulen meete; oon schal crie to an other" 277:
did not use the word "onocentaur", but instead glossed the term as: "wondurful beestis, lijk men in the hiyere part and lijk assis in the nethir part". The later
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mentions a "beast like a man to the thighs but having legs and feet like those of an ass", though it does not use the term onocentaur.
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the onocentaurs will stop because they have found rest") to translate some sort of "island beast(s)" called
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run. It has a violent temper and does not endure capture."
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Manuel Philes
Latin
Greek
translit.
lit.
legendary creature
Ancient folklore
Medieval bestiaries
Onocentaur with no front legs from Curious Creatures in Zoology by John Ashton, 1890

centaur
human
donkey
four legs
two legs
liminal beings
Ptolemy II Philadelphus
Claudius Aelianus
Antony
Athanasius of Alexandria
concordance to the Bible
Septuagint
Book of Isaiah
אִי
אִיִּים
לִילִית
Jerome's
Vetus Latina
Late Latin

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