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Speckled
Speckled [Heb. nāqōḏ] (Gen. 30:32f, 35, 39); NEB SPOTTED, etc.; śāḇû (a)ʿ—‘colored, variegated’] (Jer. 12:9); NEB HYENA. In Gen. 30 “speckled” perhaps refers to the coloring of various animals in Laban’s flocks, although some scholars suggest that the etymology of the term pertains more to spatial