@apropos

> a. it's an honest attempt to preserve some deliberately ambiguity that's easy in the original but awkward in English.

Yeah, I figure, like, translators sometimes use other translations as a reference, but the English translation probably doesn't figure in beyond that.

> or a pet cat

Never mentioned in the Bible. No cats in there. (Egypt was all fans of cats, they couldn't. So there are lions and tigers but no pet cats.)