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# נֶשֶׁר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5404

**griffon-vulture** — used 26 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

griffon-vulture [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5404/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נֶשֶׁר: n.m. griffon-vulture, eagle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5404/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Dt 32:11 griffon-vulture, eagle (NH id.; Assyrian našru; 𝔗 נִשְׁרָא; Syriac ܢܶܫܪܳܐ; Arabic نَسْرٌ vulture (Lane 2780), vulg. نِسْرٌ; Ethiopic ንስር Di 641; Sab. נסר n.pr. dei, and ביתן נסר DHMZMG xxix (1875), 600; xxxvii (1883), 356);—abs. נ׳ Ho 8:1 +; נָ֑שֶׁר Dt 28:49 +; pl. נְשָׁרִים 2 S 1:23 +, cstr. נִשְׁרֵי La 4:19;—sometimes (perhaps not always) the griffon-vulture (TristrNHB 172 ff. Dr Dt 14:12 NowArch. i. 84 Lane 2780), Mi 1:16 (bald, in sim.), flying swiftly to prey Hb 1:8 Jb 9:26, cf. Pr 30:17 (בְּנֵי־נ׳), unclean Lv 11:13 Dt 14:12; soaring Jb 39:27, also in sim. Pr 23:5 Is 40:31 Ob 4, building nest high Je 49:16 (cf. also Jb 39:27); as swift also 2 S 1:23, especially of Bab. and Assyrian invader Je 4:13 La 4:19, cf. Ho 8:1 Dt 28:49 Je 48:40; 49:22 (all in comparisons), הַנֶּשֶׁר הַגָּדוֹל Ez 17:3 (fig. of Nebuch.), v 7 (fig. of king of Egypt); leaving no trace of flight Pr 30:19; as renewing youth (by moulting) ψ 103:5; as training and supporting its young Ex 19:4 (E), Dt 32:11 (song); פְּנֵי נ׳ of cherubim in vision Ez 1:10; 10:4.—Only Mi 1:16 seems to compel ref. to vulture (on eating fresh carrion by eagles v. reff. in Di Lv 11:13), and נ׳ may be a more comprehensive word, incl. both vulture and eagle.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 25 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: eagle (11); an eagle (6); of an eagle (3).

## In the verses

[Job 9:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.26/#tree)

חָ֭לְפוּ עִם־אֳנִיּ֣וֹת אֵבֶ֑ה כְּ֝נֶ֗שֶׁר יָט֥וּשׂ עֲלֵי־אֹֽכֶל׃

*Word for word:* they.have.passed.on with ships of.reed like an.eagle \[which\].it.rushes on food

*JPS 1917:* They are passed away as the swift ships; as the vulture that swoopeth on the prey.

[Job 39:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.27/#tree)

אִם־עַל־פִּ֭יךָ יַגְבִּ֣יהַּ נָ֑שֶׁר וְ֝כִ֗י יָרִ֥ים קִנּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* or? on mouth your does.it.make.high.\[its.flight\] an.eagle and.(dm) that it.sets.on.high nest its

*JPS 1917:* Doth the vulture mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5404.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5404/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).