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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

(eye feathered cock). An import from Tarshish (1 Kings 10:22²²For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. (1 Kings 10:22); 2 Chron. 9:21²¹For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. (2 Chronicles 9:21)). The peacock of Job 39:13¹³Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? (Job 39:13) should be ostrich.

Concise Bible Dictionary:

These were imported by Solomon along with ivory and apes. The Hebrew word tukkiyyim is very similar to the Cingalese name of the peacock, tokei, and this is doubtless the bird intended (1 Kings 10:22²²For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. (1 Kings 10:22); 2 Chron. 9:21²¹For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. (2 Chronicles 9:21)). The common peacock is the Pavo cristatus. In Job 39:13¹³Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? (Job 39:13) is the word renanim, and this is supposed to refer to the ostrich.

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