Strong’s H5861 · Hebrew
עַיִט
ʻayiṭ · ah'-yit
Origin from עִיט (H5860);
Meaning a hawk or other bird of prey
In the King James Version bird, fowl, ravenous (bird).
In 6 verses of the King James Version
- Genesis 15:11And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.
- Job 28:7There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture’s eye hath not seen:
- Isaiah 18:6They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
- Isaiah 46:11Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.
- Jeremiah 12:9Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.
- Ezekiel 39:4Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.