HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H5822
עׇזְנִיָּה
oz.niy.yah — vulture
1) an unclean bird of prey 1a) osprey, black eagle, buzzard 1b) perhaps an extinct bird, exact meaning unknown
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Osprey
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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GREEK · G6223
ἁλιαίετος
haliaietos — an osprey
an osprey
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Heb. ‘ozniyyah, an unclean bird according to the Mosaic law (Lev. 11:13; Deut. 14:12); the fish-eating eagle (Pandion haliaetus); one of the lesser eagles. But the Hebrew word may be taken to denote the short-toed eagle (Circaetus gallicus of Southern Europe), one of the most abundant of the eagle tribe found in Palestine.
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.