Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
eagle
Usage: eagle, vulture, griffon-vulture Aramaic equivalent: ne.shar (נְשַׁר "eagle" H5403)
Nesher means “eagle” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G5404 — phoinix in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H5404 נֶשֶׁר (nesher) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. nesher (neh'-sher) n-m. 1. the eagle (or other large bird of prey) [from an unused root meaning to lacerate] It has 26 linked Bible usages across 15 books. Visible English usage signals include eagle and eagle's. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
nesher (neh'-sher) n-m. 1. the eagle (or other large bird of prey) [from an unused root meaning to lacerate] KJV: eagle.
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eagle
Usage: eagle, vulture, griffon-vulture Aramaic equivalent: ne.shar (נְשַׁר "eagle" H5403)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render nesher, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
26 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.
And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
First 26 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H5404.
Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.
And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:
Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?
Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.
For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.
Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.
Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.
And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of a cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:
There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.
Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.
Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.
Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.
Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H5404, grouped by book.
Nesher (Strong's H5404) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "eagle". nesher (neh'-sher) n-m. 1. the eagle (or other large bird of prey) [from an unused root meaning to lacerate]
This page currently indexes 26 linked usages for Strong's H5404 across 15 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H5404 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as eagle and eagle's. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.