Vulture
פֶּ֫רֶסStrong’s H6538peres (pe-res)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Peres is the Hebrew word usually translated “bearded vulture”. 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
- Bird of preyperhaps bearded vulture or ossifrage · perhaps an extinct animal, exact meaning unknown
How it's translated
- the bearded vulture 1
- and the bearded vulture 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
פֶּ֫רֶס peres · vulture
1) bird of prey 1a) perhaps bearded vulture or ossifrage 1b) perhaps an extinct animal, 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.