Claw (Hastings' Dictionary)

In older Eng. c. was used for an animal's honf, and for any of the parts into which a cloven hoof is divided. So in Dt 14° AV we read, 'And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, . . that ye shall eat' (RV 'and hath the hoof cloven in two'); and in Zee 11" ' he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in iiieces'(RV 'hoofs'). The Heb. is parsnh, the ordinary word for ' hoof,' in l>otli passages. Cf.

Lovell (1661) : 'With claws like a Cow; but quadrifide.' The bird's c. is mentioned only Dn 4" 'his [Nebuchadrezzar's] nails like birds' rlmrs' (no word in Heb., 'nails' [prs] being understood). J. Hastincs.