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zar.zir denotes the animal named among the strutting rooster, he-goat, and king in Proverbs 30:31.
The single attestation places zar.zir as an animal in a compact list of figures described by the verse's movement or bearing; the APB presents that list with “The strutting rooster, the he-goat, and a king with his army beside him.”
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An animal in a list of stately figures · dominant
In Proverbs 30:31, the masculine singular construct form זַרְזִ֣יר occurs within a list that also includes a he-goat and a king. The APB renders the verse, “The strutting rooster, the he-goat, and a king with his army beside him,”.
In the Anselm Project Bible: In Proverbs 30:31, the APB presents the term within the list as “The strutting rooster, the he-goat, and a king with his army beside him.” Its exact rendering of the Hebrew token cannot be isolated with certainty.