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Strong's #5404: nesher (pronounced neh'-sher)

from an unused root meaning to lacerate; the eagle (or other large bird of prey):--eagle.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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nesher

1) eagle, vulture, griffon-vulture

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from an unused root meaning to lacerate



Usage:

This word is used 26 times:

Exodus 19:4: "unto the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto"
Leviticus 11:13: "they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the osprey,"
Deuteronomy 14:12: "are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the osprey,"
Deuteronomy 28:49: "thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation"
Deuteronomy 32:11: " As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings,"
2 Samuel 1:23: "they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions."
Job 9:26: "as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey."
Job 39:27: " Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?"
Psalms 103:5: "with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's."
Proverbs 23:5: "riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven."
Proverbs 30:17: "of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat"
Proverbs 30:19: "The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way"
Isaiah 40:31: "their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk,"
Jeremiah 4:13: "shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled."
Jeremiah 48:40: "the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab."
Jeremiah 49:16: "though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith"
Jeremiah 49:22: "Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah:"
Lamentations 4:19: "Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon"
Ezekiel 1:10: "on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle."
Ezekiel 10:14: "of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle."
Ezekiel 17:3: "the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, long-winged,"
Ezekiel 17:7: "There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers:"
Hosea 8:1: "Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because"
Obadiah 1:4: "Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars,"
Micah 1:16: "children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from"
Habakkuk 1:8: "shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth"









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