Hyrax

A small, tailless animal with short legs and round ears, known for climbing rocks and trees easily and eating leaves and herbs.

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Hyrax, rock badger

About Hyrax

See Animals (Badger).

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Habits, distribution, and how translators render the term across languages.

Key References

Leviticus 11:5

The rock badger, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you.

Psalm 104:18

The high mountains are for the wild goats, the cliffs a refuge for the rock badgers.

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Leviticus (1)
Leviticus 11:5

The rock badger, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you.

Deuteronomy (1)
Deuteronomy 14:7

But of those that chew the cud or have a completely divided hoof, you are not to eat the following: the camel, the rabbit, or the rock badger. Although they chew the cud, they do not have a divided hoof. They are unclean for you,

Psalms (1)
Psalm 104:18

The high mountains are for the wild goats, the cliffs a refuge for the rock badgers.

Proverbs (1)
Proverbs 30:26

the rock badgers are creatures of little power, yet they make their homes in the rocks;