And these ye do abominate of the fowl; they are not eaten, an abomination they are: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,Leviticus 11:13 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleAnd these - among the fowls - the eagle - נשר nesher, from nashar, to lacerate, cut, or tear to pieces; hence the eagle, a most rapacious bird of prey, from its tearing the flesh of the animals it feeds on; and for this purpose birds of prey have, in general, strong, crooked talons and a hooked beak. The eagle is a cruel bird, exceedingly ravenous, and almost insatiable.
The ossifrage - Or bone-breaker, from os, a bone, and frango, I break, because it not only strips off the flesh, but breaks the bone in order to extract the marrow. In Hebrew it is called פרס peres, from paras, to break or divide in two, and probably signifies that species of the eagle anciently known by the name of ossifraga, and which we render ossifrage.
Ospray - עזניה ozniyah, from עזן azan, to be strong, vigorous; generally supposed to mean the black eagle, such as that described by Homer, Iliad. lib. xxi., ver. 252.
Αιετου οιματ' εχων μελανος, του θηρητηρος,
Ὁς θ' αμα καρτιστος τε και ωκιστος πετεηνων.
"Having the rapidity of the black eagle, that bird of prey, at once the swiftest and the strongest of the feathered race." Among the Greeks and Romans the eagle was held sacred, and is represented as carrying the thunderbolts of Jupiter. This occurs so frequently, and is so well known, that references are almost needless. See Scheuchzer.
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the eagle In Hebrew, {nesher}, Chaldee, {neshar}, Syriac, {neshro}, and Arabic, {nishr}, the {eagle}, one of the largest, strongest, swiftest, fiercest, and most rapacious of the feathered race. His eye is large, dark, and piercing; his beak powerful and hooked; his legs strong and feathered; his feet yellow and armed with four very long and terrific claws; his wings very large and powerful; his body compact and robust; his bone hard; his body compact and robust; his bones hard; his flesh firm; his feathers coarse; his attitude fierce and erect; his motions lively; his flight extremely rapid and towering; and his cry the terror of every wing.
Deuteronomy 14:12-20 But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray...
Job 28:7 There is a path which no fowl knows, and which the vulture's eye has not seen:
Job 38:41 Who provides for the raven his food? when his young ones cry to God, they wander for lack of meat.
Job 39:27-30 Does the eagle mount up at your command, and make her nest on high...
Jeremiah 4:13,22 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles...
Jeremiah 48:40 For thus said the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.
Lamentations 4:19 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
Hosea 8:1 Set the trumpet to your mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant...
Habakkuk 1:8 Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves...
Matthew 24:28 For wherever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
Romans 1:28-32 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind...
Romans 3:13-17 Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips...
Titus 3:3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy...
the ossifrage. {Peres}, from {paras to break}, probably the species of eagle anciently called {ossifraga} or {bone breaker} (from os, a bone, and frango, to break,) because it not only strips off the flesh, but {breaks} the bone, in order to extract the marrow. the {ospray}. Hebrew {dzniyah}, Arabic {azan}, (from azaz, to be strong,) a species of eagle, probably the {black eagle,) so remarkable for its {strength}.
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