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ʿāgūr עָגוּר ‘crane’ (Hebrew)

Etymology?: passive participle of an unused root meaning to twitter (but with active sense)

ʿāgūr n, m
1) name of a bird
 1a) perhaps a thrush, swallow, crane

Mentioned in Isaiah 38:14 Jeremiah 8:7

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