Eagle
נְשַׁרStrong’s H5403neshar (ne-shar)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Neshar is the Aramaic word usually translated “like eagles” and “eagle”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.”
Meaning
- Eagle, vulture, griffon-vulture
How it's translated
- like eagles 1
- an eagle 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 2
1 book in all.
Related words
Aramaic dictionary
נְשַׁר neshar · eagle
eagle, vulture, griffon-vulture Aramaic of ne.sher (נֶשֶׁר "eagle" H5404)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “eagle” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
E'AGLE, noun
[Latin aquila.]
- A rapacious fowl of the genus Falco.
- A gold coin of the United States, of the value of ten dollars, or forty-five shillings sterling.
- A constellation in the northern hemisphere, having its right wing contiguous to the equinoctial.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.