STRONGS NUMBER H338


Word Summary
i: a jackal
Original Word: אִי
Transliteration: i
Phonetic Spelling: (ee)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a jackal
Meaning: a howler, any solitary wild creature
Strong's Concordance
wild beast of the islands

Probably identical with 'iy (through the idea of a doleful sound); a howler (used only in the plural), i.e. Any solitary wild creature; --wild beast of the islands.

see HEBREW 'iy

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H338. i

II. [אִי‎] noun masculine jackal (howler, for *אָוִי‎ see BaNB 188, compare Arabic , whence ) — plural אִיִּים‎, Isaiah 13:22; 34:14; Jeremiah 50:39 (inhabitant of desert, ruin).