International Standard Bible Encyclopedia BIRDS OF PREYpra: They were undoubtedly the first birds noticed by the compilers of Biblical records. They were camp followers, swarmed over villages and perched on the walls of cities. They were offensive in manner and odor, and of a boldness unknown to us in birds. They flocked in untold numbers, there was small defense against them, and the largest and strongest not only carried away meat prepared for food and sacrifice, but also preyed upon the much-prized house pigeons, newly born of the smaller animals, and even at times attacked young children. See Genesis 15:11, "And the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away." Because they were attracted from above the clouds by anything suitable for food, people recognized that these were birds of unusual vision. When Job wanted to tell how perfectly the path to the gold mine was concealed, he wrote, "That path no bird of prey knoweth" (Job 28:7). The inference is, that, if it were so perfectly concealed that it escaped the piercing eyes of these birds, it was not probable that man would find it. These birds were so strong, fierce and impudent that everyone feared them, and when the prophets gave warning that people would be left for birds of prey to ravage, they fully understood what was meant, and they were afraid (Isaiah 18:6). In His complaint against His heritage, Yahweh questions, "Is my heritage unto me as a speckled bird of prey? are the birds of prey against her round about?" (Jeremiah 12:9). And when he prophesied the destruction of Jerusalem, Jeremiah painted a dreadful picture, but one no doubt often seen in that land of pillage and warfare: "Their dead bodies will I give to be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth" (Jeremiah 19:7). PREY pra (baz, Tereph, shalal): "Prey" is frequent in the Old Testament, chiefly as the translation of baz, "spoil," "plunder" (Numbers 14:3, 11 Deuteronomy 1:39 Isaiah 10:6, etc.); of Tereph, "prey of wild beasts," "torn thing" (Genesis 49:9 Numbers 23:24 Job 4:11, etc.); of malqoah, "a taking" (Numbers 31:11, etc.; Isaiah 49:24, 25); of shalal, "spoil" or "booty" (Judges 5:30 twice; Judges 8:24, 25 Isaiah 10:2, etc.). Maher-shalal-chash-baz (the Revised Version margin "The spoil speedeth, the prey hasteth") was the symbolical name given to a son of Isaiah (Isaiah 8:1, 3). "Prey" does not occur in the New Testament, but is found in the Apoc: 1 Esdras 8:77, "for our sins.... were given up.... for a prey" (pronome); Judith 9:4; 16:05; 1 Maccabees 7:47; Ecclesiasticus 27:10 (thera); Judith 5:24 (katabroma). Greek 2339. thera -- a hunting, prey ... a hunting, prey. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: thera Phonetic Spelling: (thay'-rah) Short Definition: hunting, entrapping Definition: hunting ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2339.htm - 6k 1404. drakon -- a dragon (a mythical monster) 4812. sulagogeo -- to carry off as spoil 105. aetos -- an eagle 1387. dolioo -- to deceive 2785. ketos -- a huge fish Strong's Hebrew 2964. tereph -- prey, food, a leaf... 2963, 2964. tereph. 2965 . prey, food, a leaf. Transliteration: tereph Phonetic Spelling: (teh'-ref) Short Definition: prey. Word ... /hebrew/2964.htm - 6k 5706. ad -- booty, prey 5861. ayit -- a bird of prey 7998. shalal -- a prey, spoil, plunder, booty 4455a. malqoach -- booty, prey 2863. chetheph -- prey 7994. shalak -- (bird of prey) probably cormorant 4455. malqowach -- booty, prey 4122. Maher Shalal Chash Baz -- "swift (is) booty, speedy (is) ... 5822. ozniyyah -- (a bird of prey) perhaps vulture Library The Prey of the Terrible Weak People Fall an Easy Prey to Heresy, which Derives Strength ... Allow Me to Fall a Prey to the Wild Beasts. How Abram Fought with the Assyrians, and Overcame Them, and Saved ... To what the Soul May be Compared which is a Prey to the Attacks of ... God's Distribution must Regulate Our Desires, Otherwise we Become ... Concerning Theodore, the Keeper of the Sacred Vessels of Antioch. ... December 24. "And Seekest Thou Great Things for Thyself? Seek them ... How the Hebrews Fought with the Midianites, and Overcame Them. Nahum's Doom of Nineveh Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary 1. (n.) Anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in war; spoil; booty; plunder.2. (n.) That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured; hence, a person given up as a victim. 3. (n.) The act of devouring other creatures; ravage. 4. (n.) To take booty; to gather spoil; to ravage; to take food by violence. Thesaurus Prey (105 Occurrences)... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. BIRDS OF PREY. pra: They were undoubtedly the first birds noticed by the compilers of Biblical records. ... /p/prey.htm - 42k Booty (32 Occurrences) Raven (7 Occurrences) Loot (15 Occurrences) Spoils (19 Occurrences) Plundered (44 Occurrences) Lioness (13 Occurrences) Roaring (28 Occurrences) Whelp (4 Occurrences) Tearing (11 Occurrences) Bible Concordance Prey (105 Occurrences)Acts 11:6 When I had looked intently at it, I considered, and saw the four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky. Colossians 2:8 See that there be no one who shall lead you away as a prey through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the teaching of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ. Genesis 15:11 The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away. Genesis 34:29 and all their wealth, and all their little ones and their wives, took they captive and made a prey, even all that was in the house. Genesis 49:9 Judah is a lion's cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up? Genesis 49:27 "Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour the prey. At evening he will divide the spoil." Numbers 14:3 Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: wouldn't it be better for us to return into Egypt?" Numbers 14:9 Only don't rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us. Don't fear them." Numbers 14:31 But your little ones, that you said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected. Numbers 23:24 Behold, the people rises up as a lioness, As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain." Numbers 31:9 The children of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones; and all their livestock, and all their flocks, and all their goods, they took for a prey. Numbers 31:11 They took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of animal. Numbers 31:12 They brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho. Numbers 31:26 "Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of animal, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers' houses of the congregation; Numbers 31:27 and divide the prey into two parts: between the men skilled in war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation. Numbers 31:32 Now the prey, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep, Deuteronomy 1:39 Moreover your little ones, whom you said should be a prey, and your children, who this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there, and to them will I give it, and they shall possess it. Deuteronomy 2:35 only the livestock we took for a prey to ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we had taken. Deuteronomy 3:7 But all the livestock, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves. Deuteronomy 20:14 but the women, and the little ones, and the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its spoil, you shall take for a prey to yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you. Joshua 8:2 And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city behind it. Joshua 8:27 Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took for prey to themselves, according to the word of Yahweh which he commanded Joshua. Joshua 11:14 And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any to breathe. Judges 5:30 Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colors, a prey of divers colors of needlework, of divers colors of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil? Judges 8:24 And Gideon said unto them, I would desire a request of you, that ye would give me every man the earrings of his prey. (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.) Judges 8:25 And they answered, We will willingly give them. And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings of his prey. 1 Samuel 14:36 And Saul saith, 'Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and we prey upon them till the light of the morning, and leave not a man of them.' And they say, 'All that is good in thine eyes do.' And the priest saith, 'Let us draw near hither unto God.' 2 Kings 21:14 I will cast off the remnant of my inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies. They will become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies; 2 Chronicles 25:13 And the sons of the troop that Amaziah hath sent back from going with him to battle -- they rush against cities of Judah, from Samaria even unto Beth-Horon, and smite of them three thousand, and seize much prey. 2 Chronicles 28:14 And the armed men leave the captives and the prey before the heads and all the assembly; Nehemiah 4:4 Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity: Esther 3:13 And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey. Esther 8:11 Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey, Esther 9:10 the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the oppressor of the Jews, they slew; but they laid not their hands on the prey. Esther 9:15 For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand. Esther 9:16 But the other Jews that were in the king's provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their foes seventy and five thousand, but they laid not their hands on the prey, Job 4:11 The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad. Job 9:12 Behold, he seizeth 'the prey', who can hinder him? Who will say unto him, What doest thou? Job 9:26 They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey. Job 17:5 He who denounces his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail. Job 24:5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children. Job 28:7 That path no bird of prey knows, neither has the falcon's eye seen it. Job 29:17 I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth. Job 38:39 "Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions, Job 38:41 Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food? Job 39:29 From there he spies out the prey. His eyes see it afar off. Psalms 17:12 He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places. Psalms 22:13 They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring. Psalms 63:10 They shall be given over to the power of the sword. They shall be jackal food. Psalms 76:4 Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey. Psalms 104:21 The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God. Psalms 111:5 Prey He hath given to those fearing Him, He remembereth to the age His covenant. Psalms 124:6 Blessed be Yahweh, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth. Proverbs 12:12 The wicked desireth the net of evil men; But the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit . Proverbs 12:27 The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting; But the precious substance of men is to the diligent. Proverbs 23:28 She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men. Isaiah 5:29 Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver. Isaiah 8:1 And Jehovah said unto me, Take thee a great tablet, and write upon it with the pen of a man, For Maher-shalal-hash-baz; Isaiah 10:2 to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey! Isaiah 10:6 I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me will I give him a command to take the spoil and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. Isaiah 18:6 They shall be left together unto the mountain birds of prey, and to the beasts of the earth; and the birds of prey shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them. Isaiah 31:4 For thus says Yahweh to me, "As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds is called together against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them, so Yahweh of Armies will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its heights. Jeremiah Isaiah 33:23 Your rigging is untied. They couldn't strengthen the foot of their mast. They couldn't spread the sail. Then the prey of a great spoil was divided. The lame took the prey. Isaiah 42:22 But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become a prey, and no one delivers; and a spoil, and no one says,'Restore them!' Isaiah 46:11 calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country; yea, I have spoken, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed, I will also do it. Isaiah 49:24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered? Isaiah 49:25 But thus says Yahweh, "Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered; for I will contend with him who contends with you, and I will save your children. Isaiah 59:15 Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice. Jeremiah 2:14 Is Israel a servant? is he a native-born slave? why is he become a prey? Jeremiah 12:9 Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey? are the birds of prey against her all around? Go, assemble all the animals of the field, bring them to devour. Jeremiah 15:13 Thy strength and thy treasures For a prey I do give -- not for price, Even for all thy sins, and in all thy borders. Jeremiah 17:3 O My mountain in the field -- thy strength, All thy treasures -- for a prey I give, Thy high places for sin in all thy borders. Jeremiah 20:5 Moreover I will give all the riches of this city, and all its gains, and all the precious things of it, yes, all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies; and they shall make them a prey, and take them, and carry them to Babylon. Jeremiah 21:9 He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes out, and passes over to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be to him for a prey. Jeremiah 30:16 Therefore all those who devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, everyone of them, shall go into captivity; and those who despoil you shall be a spoil, and all who prey on you will I give for a prey. Jeremiah 38:2 Thus says Yahweh, He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes forth to the Chaldeans shall live, and his life shall be to him for a prey, and he shall live. Jeremiah 39:18 For I will surely save you, and you shall not fall by the sword, but your life shall be for a prey to you; because you have put your trust in me, says Yahweh. Jeremiah 45:5 Do you seek great things for yourself? Don't seek them; for, behold, I will bring evil on all flesh, says Yahweh; but your life will I give to you for a prey in all places where you go. Jeremiah 50:10 Chaldea shall be a prey: all who prey on her shall be satisfied, says Yahweh. Ezekiel 7:21 I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane it. Ezekiel 13:21 And I have torn your kerchiefs, And delivered My people out of your hand, And they are no more in your hand for a prey, And ye have known that I 'am' Jehovah. Ezekiel 19:3 She brought up one of her cubs: he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men. Ezekiel 19:6 He went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men. Ezekiel 22:25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in its midst, like a roaring lion ravening the prey: they have devoured souls; they take treasure and precious things; they have made her widows many in its midst. Ezekiel 22:27 Her princes in its midst are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain. Ezekiel 26:12 They shall make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise; and they shall break down your walls, and destroy your pleasant houses; and they shall lay your stones and your timber and your dust in the midst of the waters. Ezekiel 29:19 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he shall carry off her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army. Ezekiel 34:8 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn't feed my sheep; Ezekiel 34:22 therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between sheep and sheep. Ezekiel 34:28 They shall no more be a prey to the nations, neither shall the animals of the earth devour them; but they shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid. Ezekiel 36:4 therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which are become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are all around; Ezekiel 36:5 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have appointed my land to themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with despite of soul, to cast it out for a prey. Ezekiel 38:12 to take the spoil and to take the prey; to turn your hand against the waste places that are now inhabited, and against the people who are gathered out of the nations, who have gotten livestock and goods, who dwell in the middle of the earth. Ezekiel 38:13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions of it, shall tell you, Have you come to take the spoil? have you assembled your company to take the prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great spoil? Ezekiel 39:4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the peoples that are with thee: I have given thee to be meat for the birds of prey of every wing, and to the beasts of the field. Daniel 11:24 In time of security shall he come even on the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them prey, and spoil, and substance: yes, he shall devise his devices against the strongholds, even for a time. Hosea 9:13 I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer. Amos 3:4 Will a lion roar in the thicket, when he has no prey? Does a young lion cry out of his den, if he has caught nothing? Amos 3:5 Doth a bird fall into a snare of the earth, And there is no gin for it? Doth a snare go up from the ground, And prey it captureth not? Nahum 2:11 Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion's cubs, and no one made them afraid? Subtopics Related Terms Links Bible Concordance • Bible Dictionary • Bible Encyclopedia • Topical Bible • Bible Thesuarus |
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