. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. to its ferocity,e itsterrihle roar,f and its habit of sheltering among the brushwood which lines the Jordan, and ofascending thence when the river overflowed its low Critically, the intimate knowledgeof this animal possessed by the He-brews is indicated by the variousnames, distinctively significant ofage and sex, which they applied toit. Bochart, after the Rabbins, ar-ranges thus the seven names whichmark the successive periods in thelions life; and which may remindthe reader of the seven stages intowhich Shaks
. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. to its ferocity,e itsterrihle roar,f and its habit of sheltering among the brushwood which lines the Jordan, and ofascending thence when the river overflowed its low Critically, the intimate knowledgeof this animal possessed by the He-brews is indicated by the variousnames, distinctively significant ofage and sex, which they applied toit. Bochart, after the Rabbins, ar-ranges thus the seven names whichmark the successive periods in thelions life; and which may remindthe reader of the seven stages intowhich Shakspere divides the life ofman :— 1- TO> g°r, a lions chephir, a young, or newlyweaned lion, able to leave the mo-ther and seek prey for , ari, a full grown, strong lion,and therefore the name for a lion inthe general, indeterminate jTW, shachal, a lion in hisprime, also one of darker colourthan 5. STM, shachts, astaid and still powerful lion.™ , lebiy an old lion;11 the feminineof which Wlb, lebia, is the name. [Lion of Arabia and Persia.] a Eccles. xiii. Isa. xi. 6. b •»<!?? xiv. c i Sam. xvii_ 34j 35 d Gcn_ xl|x 9 Prov. xix. 12; xx. 2 ; Amos iii. 8. g Jer. i. 44. * Sfta IT xx2: Neh- ?* Ps-xci-13; p*~ «?«? *TZ!*x. xix. 2, 3. 1 Job iv. 10; st. 6; Ps. xci. 13; Prov. xxvi. 13; Hos. v. 14: Nah. ii. 13; Ps. m Jobxxviii. 8; xli. 26. ccclxviii PHYSICAL HISTORY OF PALESTINE. [Chap. VIII. for a fierce 1. ttfv, laish, a decrepit lion, worn out with Some points in thisarrangement may seem duhious; hut there is no doubt that all these terms are applied to thelion, and are designed to be expressive of discriminated conditions of its existence. Whetherthe Hebrews succeeded in taming lions, and in training them to render assistance in the chase,does not appear. The Egyptians did so. Lions were expressly trained for the chase, like thecheetah, a hunting leopard of India; but there is no
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