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Henry Chichester Hart served as naturalist on the Palestine Exploration Fund’s 1883 Palestine Expedition. The Animals Mentioned in the Bible condenses his and other scholars’ observations of Holy Land fauna. Hart describes Bible animals, emphasizing the characteristics to which the Bible refers. When identification is difficult, he describes the various possibilities and lets the reader decide....

parash, of which the former were chariot horses, and the latter cavalry horses and of a lighter build for riding. Parash also signifies horseman, and in some cases the correct sense is lost sight of in the Authorised Version, as in Ezek. 27:14, ‘They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules,’ where the rendering should be ‘driving-horses and riding-horses;’ and in Joel 2:4, ‘The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they
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