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# עַיִט

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5861

**bird** — used 8 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

bird [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5861/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עַ֫יִט: n.m. bird(s) of prey [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5861/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Je 12:9 bird(s) of prey (from scream);—abs. ע׳ Gn 15:11 +, עָ֑יִט Jb 28:7, c. art. (perhaps) הַע׳ Je 12:9 b (cf. Gie; הַע׳ interrog. v a); cstr. עֵיט Is 18:6; Ez 39:4;—usually coll. Gn 15:11 (JE), Is 18:6 Jb 28:7, עֵיט הָרִים Is 18:6, עֵיט צִפּוֹר כָּל־כָּנָף Ez 39:4; fig. of foes of Judah Je 12:9 b; of single bird v 9 a (fig. of Judah), Is 46:11 (fig. of invader, ‖ אִישׁ עֲצָתִי).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a bird of prey (2); bird\[s\] of prey (2); of prey (2).

## In the verses

[Job 28:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.7/#tree)

נָ֭תִיב לֹֽא־יְדָ֣עוֹ עָ֑יִט וְלֹ֥א שְׁ֝זָפַ֗תּוּ עֵ֣ין אַיָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].path not it knows.it a.bird.of.prey and not it catches.sight.of.it \[the\].eye of.a.black.kite

*JPS 1917:* That path no bird of prey knoweth, neither hath the falcon's eye seen it;

[Genesis 15:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.15.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.15.11/#tree)

וַיֵּ֥רֶד הָעַ֖יִט עַל־הַפְּגָרִ֑ים וַיַּשֵּׁ֥ב אֹתָ֖ם אַבְרָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and it.came.down the.bird\[s\] of.prey on the carcasses and he.drove.away them Abram

*JPS 1917:* And the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5861.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5861/): 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).