עַיִט
ayit · bird of prey
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5861 · appears 8 times in the Bible
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ayit (עַיִט) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “bird of prey”.
How to say it
a·yit
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
- A bird that hunts and eats flesh.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- bird of prey ×6
- birds of prey ×2
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis 15:11
The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
- Job 28:7
A path that the bird of prey does not know, nor has the eye of the falcon looked on it;
- Isaiah 18:6
They will be left together for the bird of prey of the mountains and for the beasts of the earth; and the bird of prey will spend the summer on them, and all the beasts of the earth will spend the winter on them.
- Isaiah 46:11
calling from the east a bird of prey, from a distant land the man of my counsel; also I have spoken, also I will bring it about; I have formed it, also I will do it.
- Jeremiah 12:9
Is my inheritance to me a speckled bird of prey? Are the birds of prey all around against her? Go, gather all the animals of the field, bring them to devour.
- Ezekiel 39:4
On the mountains of Israel you will fall, you and all your troops, and the peoples that are with you; to the bird of prey, the bird of every wing, and to the animals of the field I have given you as food.
And 2 more times.