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What is a Wolf?
WOLF
, a fierce, cruel, ravenous animal, in size and general appearance resembling a dog, and a most terrible enemy to sheep. Isa 65:25; Matt 7:15; Neh 10:16; John 10:12; Acts 20:29. The rapaciousness of the tribe of Benjamin was foretold by Jacob by a comparison with the wolf. Gen 49:27. See Judg 20-21 and comp. 1 Sam 9:1 and John 20:31 and Acts 9:1; Rom 11:1; Phil 3:5. The Bible-writers also illustrate the cruelty of Israel's oppressors by an allusion to the wolf. Eze 22:27, and the sallying forth of the evening wolf in search of prey, Hab 1:8, is emblematical of the destruction which awaits wicked men. Jer 5:5-6. The allusion Zeph 3:3 is to the circumstance that the wolf in its greediness often seizes on more than it can consume. The wolf still lurks in Palestine, the dread of shepherds. As there found, it is of a pale fawn-color, but, although thus lighter than the common European species (Canis lupus), seems to be only a variety of it.
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