ospray Summary and Overview
Bible Dictionaries at a Glance
ospray in Schaff's Bible Dictionary
OS'PRAY , mentioned with the ossifrage as an unclean bird. Lev 11:13; Deut 14:12. If not a generic term for eagles, perhaps the short-toed eagle (Circaetus gallicus), by far the most abundant of the Palestine species.
ospray in Fausset's Bible Dictionary
ozniah (Leviticus 11:13; Deuteronomy 14:12). The sea eagle or fish hawk, Pandion haliaetus, the Septuagint. Or the short-toed eagle that feeds upon reptiles. The ossifrage (peres, means "the bone-breaker," the lamergeyer, Gypaetus (eagle and vulture combined) barbatus, "the bearded vulture." "Ospray" is a corruption of "ossifrage." It flies in eas