![]() ![]() ![]() Feliks, Animal World of the Bible (1962), 87. The Common Nightingale ( Luscinia megarhynchos) is a species of migratory Old World flycatcher found in Afro-Eurasia. But as the Song of Songs speaks of spring, this interpretation is improbable. Some, however, maintain that zamir is derived from the root signifying "fruit-picking," since in the *Gezer Calendar there occurs the expression yarḥo zamor denoting the fruit-picking months in summer. Apparently the nightingale is not specifically meant but rather all singing birds that in spring and during the breeding season fill the air with their melodious song. The parallelism between zamir and turtledove indicates that the reference here is to a bird and, according to the meaning of the Hebrew root, to a singing one. The Hebrew word is mentioned only once in the Bible in a description of spring in Ereẓ Israel: "The time of the zamir is come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land" (Song 2:12). It is a small brown bird, common in Western Europe. nightingale, any of several small Old World thrushes, belonging to the family Turdidae (order Passeriformes), renowned for their song. The most outstanding for its song is the Luscinia megarhynchos which hatches its eggs in the thickets of the Jordan. זָמִיר (mod.), zamir), a name applied to singing birds of the genus Luscinia, of which three species are found in Israel. Is it a nightingale One of the commonest mistakes is to assume that any bird singing sweetly after dark is a nightingale it’s much more likely to be a robin.
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