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Enumerated among the unclean birds (Lev. xi. 19 [R. V. margin, "ibis"]; Deut. xiv. 18; comp. Targ.
In the Talmud the heron is characterized, in allusion to the etymology of its name ("anaf"), as a cruel and irascible bird, and is contrasted with the pious stork (Ḥul. 63a; comp. Rashi to Lev. xi. 19).
- Tristram, The Natural History of the Bible, p. 241;
- L. Lewysohn, Zoologie des Talmuds, p. 169.