--- title: נֶשֶׁר — griffon-vulture · The Tanakh dictionary description: נֶשֶׁר (5404), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 26 times: griffon-vulture. BDB 1906: n.m. griffon-vulture, eagle. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5404.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/) / [נ](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1504-4.md)‎ / נֶשֶׁר‎ # נֶשֶׁר «נֶשֶׁר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **griffon-vulture** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers. **Used:** 26 times · **Key:** 5404 · **BDB:** נֶשֶׁר ### Glosses eagle (11); an.eagle (6); of.an.eagle (3) ### Meaning (OSHB) griffon-vulture [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5404/#m1) ### Meaning (BDB 1906) n.m. griffon-vulture, eagle [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5404/#m2) **The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Dt 32:11 griffon-vulture, eagle (NH id.; Assyrian našru; 𝔗 נִשְׁרָא; Syriac ܢܶܫܪܳܐ; Arabic نَسْرٌ vulture (Lane 2780), vulg. نِسْرٌ; Ethiopic ንስር Di 641; Sab. נסר n.pr. dei, and ביתן נסר DHMZMG xxix (1875), 600; xxxvii (1883), 356);—abs. נ׳ Ho 8:1 +; נָ֑שֶׁר Dt 28:49 +; pl. נְשָׁרִים 2 S 1:23 +, cstr. נִשְׁרֵי La 4:19;—sometimes (perhaps not always) the griffon-vulture (TristrNHB 172 ff. Dr Dt 14:12 NowArch. i. 84 Lane 2780), Mi 1:16 (bald, in sim.), flying swiftly to prey Hb 1:8 Jb 9:26, cf. Pr 30:17 (בְּנֵי־נ׳), unclean Lv 11:13 Dt 14:12; soaring Jb 39:27, also in sim. Pr 23:5 Is 40:31 Ob 4, building nest high Je 49:16 (cf. also Jb 39:27); as swift also 2 S 1:23, especially of Bab. and Assyrian invader Je 4:13 La 4:19, cf. Ho 8:1 Dt 28:49 Je 48:40; 49:22 (all in comparisons), הַנֶּשֶׁר הַגָּדוֹל Ez 17:3 (fig. of Nebuch.), v 7 (fig. of king of Egypt); leaving no trace of flight Pr 30:19; as renewing youth (by moulting) ψ 103:5; as training and supporting its young Ex 19:4 (E), Dt 32:11 (song); פְּנֵי נ׳ of cherubim in vision Ez 1:10; 10:4.—Only Mi 1:16 seems to compel ref. to vulture (on eating fresh carrion by eagles v. reff. in Di Lv 11:13), and נ׳ may be a more comprehensive word, incl. both vulture and eagle. Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 25 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every English meaning of «נֶשֶׁר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5404/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames. ### In the verses [Job 9:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.26/) חָ֭לְפוּ עִם־אֳנִיּ֣וֹת אֵבֶ֑ה כְּ֝נֶ֗שֶׁר יָט֥וּשׂ עֲלֵי־אֹֽכֶל׃ *Word for word:* they.have.passed.on with ships of.reed like an.eagle \[which\].it.rushes on food *JPS 1917:* They are passed away as the swift ships; as the vulture that swoopeth on the prey. [Job 39:27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.27/) אִם־עַל־פִּ֭יךָ יַגְבִּ֣יהַּ נָ֑שֶׁר וְ֝כִ֗י יָרִ֥ים קִנּֽוֹ׃ *Word for word:* or? on mouth your does.it.make.high.\[its.flight\] an.eagle and.(dm) that it.sets.on.high nest its *JPS 1917:* Doth the vulture mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high? - ← previous: [נָשַׁק](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5e9_5b7_5c1_5e7.md) - next →: [נָשַׁת](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5405.md) - ↑ back to [נ](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1504-4.md)