Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
The vulture - daah , from the root to fly, and therefore more probably the kite or glede, from its remarkable property of gliding or sailing with expanded wings through the air. The daah is a different bird from the daiyah , which signifies the vulture. See Bochart, vol. iii., col. 195.
The kite - aiyah , thought by some to be the vulture, by others the merlin. Parkhurst thinks it has its name from the root avah , to covet, because of its rapaciousness; some contend that the kite is meant. That it is a species of the hawk, most learned men allow. See Bochart, vol. iii., col..
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