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The Hebrew word, namer, signifies a 'spotted' animal. This well- known wild animal is introduced by the prophet as an illustration: as the leopard cannot change its spots, no more can rebellious man change his nature. Jer. 13: 23. The leopard is also represented as lying in wait and watching its prey, and acting with swiftness. Jer. 5: 6; Hosea 13: 7; Hab. 1: 8. The Grecian kingdom was compared to a leopard with four wings, Dan. 7: 6; and it answered to this in the rapidity of its conquests. The future Roman empire is symbolically likened to a leopard, but having the feet of a bear, and the mouth of a lion: that is, like no known beast, but symbolically uniting the characteristics of the three former powers. Rev. 13: 2. In the millennium "the leopard shall lie down with the kid." Isa. 11: 6. The common leopard is the Leopardus varius.