nesher · eagle, vulture

What it means

nesher (נֶשֶׁר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “eagle, vulture”.

Eagle; it may also refer to another large bird of prey, such as the 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 great bird of prey, high-flying and swift, that sets its nest on high.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• eagle ×21
• eagles ×3
• than eagles ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×1
• Deuteronomy×3
• 2 Samuel×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×3
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×4
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×4
• Hosea×1
• Obadiah×1
• Micah×1
• Habakkuk×1

• Exodus 19:4

  ‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.

• Leviticus 11:13

  And these you shall hold detestable among the birds; they shall not be eaten; they are a detestable thing: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the sea eagle,

• Deuteronomy 14:12

  But these are the ones that you shall not eat of them: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the sea eagle,

• Deuteronomy 28:49

  YHWH will raise against you a nation from far away, from the end of the earth, as the eagle swoops, a nation whose language you will not understand,

• Deuteronomy 32:11

  Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that hovers over its young, he spread out his wings, took him, carried him on his pinions.

• 2 Samuel 1:23

  Saul and Jonathan, beloved and pleasant in their life, and in their death they were not separated; they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.

• Job 9:26

  They pass like reed boats, like an eagle that swoops on food.

• Job 39:27

  Or at your command does the eagle mount up, and is it that it sets on high its nest?

• Psalms 103:5

  who satisfies with good your ornament, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle.

• Proverbs 23:5

  Will you make your eyes fly to it? It is gone! For it surely makes itself wings; like an eagle it flies to the heavens.

• Proverbs 30:17

  The eye that mocks a father and despises obedience to a mother, the ravens of the valley will pick it out, and the young of the eagle will eat it.

• Proverbs 30:19

  the way of the eagle in the heavens, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship in the heart of the sea, and the way of a man with a young woman.

• Isaiah 40:31

  but those who wait for YHWH will renew their strength; they will go up with plumage like eagles; they will run and not grow weary; they will walk and not grow tired.

• Jeremiah 4:13

  Look, like clouds he comes up, and like the whirlwind are his chariots; swifter than eagles are his horses. Woe to us, for we are devastated!

• Jeremiah 48:40

  For thus says YHWH: Look, like the eagle he will swoop and spread his wings over Moab.

• Jeremiah 49:16

  Your terror has deceived you, the insolence of your heart, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you make high like the eagle your nest, from there I will bring you down, declares YHWH.

• Jeremiah 49:22

  Look, like the eagle he will go up and swoop and spread his wings over Bozrah; and the heart of the mighty men of Edom will be in that day like the heart of a woman in distress.

• Lamentations 4:19

  Swifter were our pursuers than the eagles of the heavens; on the mountains they chased us; in the wilderness they lay in wait for us.

• Ezekiel 1:10

  And the likeness of their faces: the face of a human being, and the face of a lion on the right for the four of them, and the face of an ox on the left for the four of them, and the face of an eagle for the four of them.

• Ezekiel 10:14

  And each had four faces: the face of the first was the face of a cherub, and the face of the second the face of a human being, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.

• Ezekiel 17:3

  and say, ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH: The great eagle, great of wings, long of pinion, full of feathers, which had colors, came to Lebanon and took the top of the cedar.

• Ezekiel 17:7

  And there was another great eagle, great of wings and full of feathers; and look, this vine bent its roots toward it, and sent out its branches toward it, so that it might water it, from the beds of its planting.

• Hosea 8:1

  To your mouth the horn! Like an eagle one comes against the house of YHWH, because they have transgressed my covenant, and against my law they have rebelled.

• Obadiah 1:4

  Though you soar high like the eagle, and though among the stars your nest is set, from there I will bring you down, declares YHWH.

• Micah 1:16

  Shave yourself bald and shear yourself for the children of your delight; make wide your baldness like the eagle, for they have gone into exile from you.

• Habakkuk 1:8

  And swifter than leopards are its horses, and fiercer than wolves of the evening; and its horsemen gallop, and its horsemen come from afar; they fly like an eagle hastening to devour.