Falcon
אַיָּהStrong’s H0344ayyah (ay-yah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ayyah is the Hebrew word usually translated “hawk”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the vulture, and the kite after his kind;”
Meaning
- Hawk, falcon, kite
How it's translated
- the hawk 2
- a hawk 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 1
- Deuteronomy 1
- Job 1
3 books in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
אַיָּה ayyah · falcon
hawk, falcon, kite
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “falcon” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FAL'CON, noun
Sometimes pronoun fawcon. [Latin falco, a hawk. The falcon is probably so named from its curving beak or talons.]
- A hawk; but appropriately, a hawk trained to sport, as in falconry, which see.
- A sort of cannon, whose diameter at the bore is five inches and a quarter, and carrying shot of two pounds and a half.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.