Vulture
עׇזְנִיָּהStrong’s H5822ozniyyah (oz-niy-yah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ozniyyah is the Hebrew word usually translated “osprey”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And 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,”
Meaning
- An unclean bird of preyosprey, black eagle, buzzard · perhaps an extinct bird, exact meaning unknown
How it's translated
- the osprey 1
- and the osprey 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 1
- Deuteronomy 1
2 books in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
עׇזְנִיָּה ozniyyah · vulture
1) an unclean bird of prey 1a) osprey, black eagle, buzzard 1b) perhaps an extinct bird, exact meaning unknown
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “vulture” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
VULTURE, noun
A genus of fowls, belonging to the order of Accipiters. The bill is straight, but hooked at the end, and covered at the base by a cere of skin. The head is naked. There are thirteen species, all carnivorous and rapacious. The vultur is one of the largest kinds of fowls, and the Condor of South America, one of this family, is the largest species of flying animals that has been discovered.
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.