aetos · eagle, vulture

What it means

aetos (ἀετός) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “eagle, vulture”.

Eagle; also vulture.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A large bird of prey that flies high and strong.
2. A carrion bird that gathers at dead bodies.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• eagle ×3
• vultures ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Luke×1
• Revelation×3

• Matthew 24:28

  Wherever the carcass is, there the vultures will gather.

• Luke 17:37

  And answering, they say to him, “Where, Lord?” And he said to them, “Where the body is, there also the vultures will be gathered together.”

• Revelation 4:7

  And the first living creature was like a lion, and the second living creature like a calf, and the third living creature had the face as of a man, and the fourth living creature like an eagle in flight.

• Revelation 8:13

  And I looked, and I heard an eagle flying in midheaven saying with a loud voice, “Woe, woe, woe to those who live on the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three angels who are about to blow!”

• Revelation 12:14

  And the two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, so that she might fly into the wilderness, to her place, where she is nourished there for a time and times and half a time, away from the presence of the serpent.