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- Vulture - n. - Any one of numerous species of rapacious birds belonging to Vultur, Cathartes, Catharista, and various other genera of the family Vulturidae.
- Griffon - n. - A species of large vulture (Gyps fulvus) found in the mountainous parts of Southern Europe, North Africa, and Asia Minor; -- called also gripe, and grype. It is supposed to be the "eagle" of the Bible. The bearded griffin is the lammergeir.
- Vulturine - a. - Of or pertaining to a vulture; resembling a vulture in qualities or looks; as, the vulturine sea eagle (Gypohierax Angolensis); vulturine rapacity.
- Prometheus - n. - The son of Iapetus (one of the Titans) and Clymene, fabled by the poets to have surpassed all mankind in knowledge, and to have formed men of clay to whom he gave life by means of fire stolen from heaven. Jupiter, being angry at this, sent Mercury to bind Prometheus to Mount Caucasus, where a vulture preyed upon his liver.
- Urubu - n. - The black vulture (Catharista atrata). It ranges from the Southern United States to South America. See Vulture.
- Quarry - v. i. - To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.
- Lammergeier - n. - A very large vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), which inhabits the mountains of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. When full-grown it is nine or ten feet in extent of wings. It is brownish black above, with the under parts and neck rusty yellow; the forehead and crown white; the sides of the head and beard black. It feeds partly on carrion and partly on small animals, which it kills. It has the habit of carrying tortoises and marrow bones to a great height, and dropping them on stones to obtain the contents, and is therefore called bonebreaker and ossifrage. It is supposed to be the ossifrage of the Bible. Called also bearded vulture and bearded eagle.
- Condor - n. - A very large bird of the Vulture family (Sarcorhamphus gryphus), found in the most elevated parts of the Andes.
- Gier-eagle - n. - A bird referred to in the Bible (Lev. xi. 18and Deut. xiv. 17) as unclean, probably the Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus).
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- H344 אַיָּה - 344 אַיָּה - אַיָּה - - ʼayâh - ah-yaw' - perhaps from אִי; the screamer, i.e. a hawk; kite, vulture. - Noun Feminine - heb
- H1772 דַּיָּה - 1772 דַּיָּה - דַּיָּה - - dayâh - dah-yaw' - intensive from דָּאָה; a falcon (from its rapid flight); vulture. - Noun Feminine - heb
- H1676 דָּאָה - 1676 דָּאָה - דָּאָה - - dâʼâh - daw-aw' - from דָּאָה; the kite (from its rapid flight); vulture. See רָאָה. - Noun Feminine - heb
- H7360 רָחָם - 7360 רָחָם - רָחָם - - râchâm - raw-khawm' - or (feminine) רָחָמָה; from רָחַם; a kind of vulture (supposed to be tender towards its young); gier-eagle. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H7201 רָאָה - 7201 רָאָה - רָאָה - - râʼâh - raw-aw' - from רָאָה; a bird of prey (probably the vulture, from its sharp sight); glede. Compare דָּאָה. - Noun Feminine - heb
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- Deuteronomy 5 14:13 And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,
רָאָה אַיָּה דַּיָּה מִין - Isaiah 23 34:15 There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
קִפּוֹז קָנַן מָלַט בָּקַע דָּגַר צֵל דַּיָּה קָבַץ אִשָּׁה רְעוּת - Job 18 28:7 There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:
נָתִיב עַיִט יָדַע אַיָּה עַיִן שָׁזַף - Leviticus 3 11:14 And the vulture, and the kite after his kind;
דָּאָה אַיָּה מִין