= relatively small light brown domestic animal, feeding on anything from household refuse to animal carcasses and excreta; |iCanis familiaris putiatini|i*; extremely unclean animal and therefore not to be eaten, though used for hunting and for watching sheep; considered almost as unclean as a pig; associated with all sorts of uncleanness, aggression, greediness, low status; used as derogatory term for male shrine prostitutes

= male person involved in sexual intercourse in or around a sanctuary, probably for religious reasons; practice was prohibited in Mosaic law and for that reason regarded as despicable, hence the epithet "dog"