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Paw

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

is the rendering in the A.V. of the Heb. כִּ, kaph (Leviticus 11:27), the palm or hollow "hand" (as elsewhere rendered), and יָד, yad (1 Samuel 17:37), the open hand (as elsewhere rendered), applied to an animal, in the latter case metaphorically in the sense of power.