Vulture
vul'-tur (da'ah; Septuagint gups, and iktinos; Latin
Vulturidae): Any member of a family of large birds that
subsist wholly or in part on carrion. The largest vulture of
Israel was the Lammer-geier. This bird waited until smaller
vultures, eagles and hawks stripped a carcass to the bone,
then carried the skeleton aloft and dashed it on the roc...
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-A carnivorous bird
Le 11:14; De 14:13
-In R. V., translated "falcon,"
Job 28:7
-And "kite,"
Isa 34:15...
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The rendering in the Authorized Version of the Hebrew daah,
dayyah, and also in Job 28:7 of ayyah. There seems no doubt
that the Authorized Versions translation is incorrect, and
that the original words refer to some of the smaller species
of raptorial birds, as kites or buzzards. [KITE] But the
Hebrew word nesher, invariably rendered "eagle" ...
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(1.) Heb. da'ah (Lev. 11:14). In the parallel passage (Deut.
14:13) the Hebrew word used is _ra'ah_, rendered
"glede;" LXX.,
"gups;" Vulg., "milvus." A species of ravenous bird,
distinguished for its rapid flight. "When used without
the
epithet 'red,' the name is commonly confined to the
black kite.
The habits of the bird bear out the allus...
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'ayah (the red kite famed for sharp sight: Job 28:7); daah
(GLEDE or black kite: Leviticus 11:14; Deuteronomy 14:13
raah); dayah, the Vulturidae; the words "after his kind" mark
more than one species. Vultures differ from eagles and falcons
by having the head and neck borer of feathers, the eyes not so
sunk, the beak longer, curved only at the...
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And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,...
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And the vulture, and the kite after his kind;...
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Vulture. - So does D.V. render the Hebrew, 'áyyah, Lev., xi, 14; Deut., xiv, 13; Job, xxviii, 7. As has been suggested above, the text of Job at least, seems to allude to the kite rather than to the vulture. Several kinds of vultures are nevertheless referred to in the Bible; so, for instance, the bearded vulture(gypœtus barbatus), called griffon i...
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