and this seemed now to be the case of these women; or, "like the owls", as the word is sometimes rendered; and which also leave their eggs, and for want of food will eat their young, as those women did.
So Ben Melech says, it is a bird which dwells in the wilderness, and causes a voice of hooping to be heard. Hierozoic. l. 1. c. 7. p. 46. Hist. Animal. l. 3. c. 20. Ib. l. 6. c. 12. lbid. Hist. de Animal.
1. 10. c. 8. Ib. l. 5. c. 4. Nat. Hist. l. 9. c. 8. Nhyrwg "catulos suos", Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius. Nat. Hist. l. 9. c. 13. rzkal "in crudelem", Montanus; "sub.