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Lexicon :: Strong's H5404 - nešer

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נֶשֶׁר
Transliteration
nešer
Pronunciation
neh'-sher
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root meaning to lacerate
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TWOT Reference: 1437

Strong’s Definitions

נֶשֶׁר nesher, neh'-sher; from an unused root meaning to lacerate; the eagle (or other large bird of prey):—eagle.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 26x

The KJV translates Strong's H5404 in the following manner: eagle (26x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 26x
The KJV translates Strong's H5404 in the following manner: eagle (26x).

  1. eagle, vulture, griffon-vulture

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
נֶשֶׁר nesher, neh'-sher; from an unused root meaning to lacerate; the eagle (or other large bird of prey):—eagle.
STRONGS H5404: Abbreviations
† נֶשֶׁר noun masculineDeuteronomy 32:11 griffon-vulture, eagle (Late Hebrew id.; Assyrian našru; Targum נַשְׁרָא; Syriac bdb067608 Arabic bdb067609 vulture (Lane2780), vulgar bdb067610 Ethiopic bdb067611 Di641; Sabean נסר proper name, of deity, and ביתן נסר DHMZMG. xxix (1875), 600; xxxvii (1883), 356); — absolute נ׳ Hosea 8:1 +; נָ֑שֶׁר Deuteronomy 28:49 +; plural נְשָׁרִים 2 Samuel 1:23 +, construct נִשְׁרֵי Lamentations 4:19; — sometimes (perhaps not always) the griffon-vulture (TristrNHB 172 ff. DrDeuteronomy 14:12 NowArchi i. 84 Lane2780), Micah 1:16 (bald, in simile) flying swiftly to pery Habakkuk 1:8; Job 9:26, compare Proverbs 30:17 (בְּנֵינֿ׳, unclean Leviticus 11:13; Deuteronomy 14:12; soaring Job 30:27, also in simile Proverbs 23:5; Isaiah 40:31; Obadiah 4, building nest high Jeremiah 49:16 (compare also Job 39:27); as swift also 2 Samuel 1:23, especially of Babylonian and Assyr. invader Jeremiah 4:13; Lamentations 4:19, compare Hosea 8:1; Deuteronomy 28:49; Jeremiah 48:40; Jeremiah 49:22 (all in comparisons), הַנֶּשֶׁר הַגָּדוֺל Ezekiel 17:3 (figurativeof Nebuch.), Ezekiel 17:7 (figurative of king of Egypt); leaving no trace of light Proverbs 30:19; as renewing youth (by moulting) Psalm 103:5; as training and supporting its young Exodus 19:4 (E), Deuteronomy 32:11 (song); נ'פְּנֵי of cherubim in vision Ezekiel 1:10; Ezekiel 10:4. — Only Micah 1:16 seems to compel reference to vulture (on eating fresh carrion by eagles see references in DiLeviticus 11:13), and נ׳ may be a more comprehensive word, including both vulture and eagle.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H5403.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

19:4

Leviticus

11:13; 11:13

Deuteronomy

14:12; 14:12; 28:49; 28:49; 32:11; 32:11

2 Samuel

1:23; 1:23

Job

9:26; 30:27; 39:27

Psalms

103:5

Proverbs

23:5; 30:17; 30:19

Isaiah

40:31

Jeremiah

4:13; 48:40; 49:16; 49:22

Lamentations

4:19; 4:19

Ezekiel

1:10; 10:4; 17:3; 17:7

Hosea

8:1; 8:1

Obadiah

1:4

Micah

1:16; 1:16

Habakkuk

1:8

H5404

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Strong's Number H5404 matches the Hebrew נֶשֶׁר (nešer),
which occurs 26 times in 26 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:4 - Ye have seen all that I have done to the Egyptians, and I took you up as upon eagles' wings, and I brought you near to myself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:13 - And these are the things which ye shall abhor of birds, and they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle and the ossifrage, and the sea-eagle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:12 - And these of [fn]them ye shall not eat; the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the sea-eagle,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:49

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:49 - The Lord shall bring upon thee a nation from the extremity of the earth, like the swift flying of an eagle, a nation whose voice thou shalt not [fn]understand;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:11 - As an eagle would watch over his brood, and yearns over his young, receives them having spread his wings, and takes them up on his back:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:23 - Saul and Jonathan, the beloved and the beautiful, were not divided: comely were they in their life, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, and they were stronger than lions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:26 - Or again, is there a trace of their path left by ships? or is there one of the flying eagle as it seeks its prey?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:27 - And does the eagle rise at thy command, and the vulture remain sitting over his nest,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:5 - (LXX 102:5) who satisfies thy desire with good things: so that thy youth shall be renewed like that of the eagle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:5 - If thou shouldest fix thine eye upon him, he will disappear; for wings like an eagle's are prepared for him, and he returns to the house of his master.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:17 - The eye that laughs to scorn a father, and dishonours the old age of a mother, let the ravens of the valleys pick it out, and let the young eagles devour it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:19 - the track of a flying eagle; and the ways of a serpent on a rock; and the paths of a ship passing through the sea; and the ways of a man in youth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:31

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:31 - but they that wait on God shall renew their strength; they shall put forth new feathers like eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not hunger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:13 - Behold, he shall come up as a cloud, and his chariots as a tempest: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are in misery.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:40

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:40 - (LXX 31:40) For thus said the Lord;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:16 - (LXX 30:10) Thine insolence has risen up against thee, the fierceness of thine heart has burst the holes of the rocks, it has seized upon the strength of a lofty hill; for as an eagle he set his nest on high: thence will I bring thee down.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:22 - (LXX 30:16) Behold, he shall look upon her as an eagle, and spread forth his wings over her strongholds; and the heart of the mighty men of Idumea shall be in that day as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:19 - Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky, they flew on the mountains, in the wilderness they laid wait for us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:10 - And the likeness of their faces was the face of a man, and the face of a lion on the right to the four; and the face of a calf on the left to the four; and the face of an eagle to the four.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:3 - and thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord; A great eagle with large wings, spreading them out very far, with many claws, which has the design of entering into Libanus—and he took the choice branches of the cedar:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:7 - And there was another great eagle, with great wings and many claws: and, behold, this vine bent itself round toward him, and her roots were turned towards him, and she sent forth her branches towards him, that he might water her together with the growth of her plantation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:1 - He shall come into their midst as the land, as an eagle against the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed my covenant, and have sinned against my law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:4 - If thou shouldest mount up as the eagle, and if thou shouldest make thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:16 - Shave thine hair, and make thyself bald for thy delicate children; increase thy widowhood as an eagle; for thy people are gone into captivity from thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:8 - And his horses shall bound more swiftly than leopards, and they are fiercer than the wolves of Arabia: and his horsemen shall ride forth, and shall rush from far; and they shall fly as an eagle hasting to eat.
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