תְּנָה Jackal
Every verse in which this word stands — 2 places, in canonical order, first appearance to last. These are the places the lexicon carries under this word's own entry, counting every form the text writes it in, which is the number on the list.
The tannim of the wilderness — the howlers of Malachi's ruined Esav and of Iyov's lament. The lexicon writes most of the desolation prophecies' jackals under the tannin entry, among the legendary creatures; this entry carries the remainder, and the tradition discusses which places are the beast and which the sea-creature.
וְאֶת־עֵשָׂו שָׂנֵאתִי וָאָשִׂים אֶת־הָרָיו שְׁמָמָה וְאֶת־נַחֲלָתוֹ לְתַנּוֹת מִדְבָּֽר
But Esau I hated, And made his mountains a desolation, And gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.
גַּם־תנין חָלְצוּ שַׁד הֵינִיקוּ גּוּרֵיהֶן בַּת־עַמִּי לְאַכְזָר כי ענים בַּמִּדְבָּֽר
Even the jackals draw out the breast, They give suck to their young ones; The daughter of my people is become cruel, Like the ostriches in the wilderness.
Quick answers
What is the Hebrew word for jackal?
Jackal in Hebrew is תנה, with a gematria of 455 in the standard method.
How many times is the jackal mentioned in the Tanakh?
The word stands 2 times in the Tanakh, first at Malachi 1:3.
A spelling is not a word. The bare letters תנה stand 24 times in the corpus, which is a different question and often a different number: the same letters can spell a name or another word entirely, and the creature written with a particle attached is a spelling that search never returns. It is here, as itself.
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