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VAMPIRE

Agriculture & Daily Life • Old Testament
“Vampire” appears only as a marginal rendering for the horseleach in Proverbs 30:15. It refers to a bloodsucking creature and is not a reference to the later folkloric vampire.
Biblical Usage
The term appears only in the margin of Proverbs 30:15, where the main text refers to a horseleach.