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    Fennec

    FEN-ik

    Arabic/Berber
    Boy
    Meaning-based name
    Meaning
    Fox; Desert dweller
    Origin
    Arabic/Berber
    Is it in the Bible?
    No — the name Fennec does not appear in the King James Bible. Christian families use it for its meaning, "Fox; Desert dweller", and for the biblical themes that meaning touches, not because anyone in Scripture is called Fennec.
    First appears in
    Does not appear in the King James text
    Peak US usage
    No recorded United States usage in the 1880–2008 records
    Spiritual meaning
    Fennec is found in the desert — kept as the apple of God's eye, led about and instructed, the wilderness dweller who discovers rivers in dry places.
    Verses on this meaning
    • Deuteronomy 32:10

      "He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye."

    • Isaiah 43:19

      "Behold, I will do a new thing... I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert."

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