Lexicographical studies on Hebrew animal names have focused mainly on the biblical zoonymic vocabulary handed down in the Masoretic Text (MT) and, to a lesser extent, on the post-biblical vocabulary of Rabbinic literature (Dor 1997; Riede 2002; Militarev and Kogan 2005; Kogan 2006). Literary studies have investigated the role of literary figures and models of the ancient bestiary in the biblical and post-biblical imagination, with special emphasis on the human-animal relationship as manifested i…