Eagle
נְשַׁרStrong’s H5404neshar (ne-shar)
Appears in 26 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Neshar is the Hebrew word usually translated “like eagle”, “eagle” and “like an eagle”. It appears in 26 verses of the Old Testament.
“Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself.”
Meaning
- Eagle, vulture, griffon-vulture
How it's translated
- like eagle 7
- an eagle 5
- the eagle 4
- like an eagle 4
- more than eagles 2
- eagles 1
- eagle 1
- like eagles 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 4
- Ezekiel 4
- Deuteronomy 3
- Proverbs 3
- Job 2
- Exodus 1
15 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 11:13And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
- Deuteronomy 14:12But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
- Deuteronomy 28:49The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
- Deuteronomy 32:11As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:
- 2 Samuel 1:23Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
- Job 9:26They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
Hebrew 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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.