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# פֶּרֶס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6538

**bearded vulture** — used 2 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

bearded vulture [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6538/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פֶּ֫רֶס: bearded vulture ossifrage [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6538/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] a bird of prey, perhaps bearded vulture (gypaetus barbatus), ‘ossifrage’ (TristrNHB 171; FFP 94; from tearing its prey);—forbidden as food Dt 14:12 = Lv 11:13 (H).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: vulture (2).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 14:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.14.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.14.12/#tree)

וְזֶ֕ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹֽא־תֹאכְל֖וּ מֵהֶ֑ם הַנֶּ֥שֶׁר וְהַפֶּ֖רֶס וְהָֽעָזְנִיָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and this \[is.that\].which not you.will.eat any of.them the eagle and the.bearded vulture and the.black vulture

*JPS 1917:* But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the great vulture, and the bearded vulture, and the ospray;

[Leviticus 11:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.13/#tree)

וְאֶת־אֵ֙לֶּה֙ תְּשַׁקְּצ֣וּ מִן־הָע֔וֹף לֹ֥א יֵאָכְל֖וּ שֶׁ֣קֶץ הֵ֑ם אֶת־הַנֶּ֙שֶׁר֙ וְאֶת־הַפֶּ֔רֶס וְאֵ֖ת הָעָזְנִיָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and (et) these you.will.detest from the bird\[s\] not they.will.be.eaten \[are\].detestable.thing\[s\] they (et) the eagle and (et) the.bearded vulture and (et) the.black vulture

*JPS 1917:* And these ye shall have in detestation among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are a detestable thing: the great vulture, and the bearded vulture, and the ospray;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6538.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6538/): 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).