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Lexicon :: Strong's H5404 - nešer

Aa
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 - You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I took you, as on eagles' wings, guiding you to myself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:13 - And among birds these are to be disgusting to you, and not to be used for food: the eagle and the gier-eagle and the ospray;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:12 - But these birds you may not take: the eagle and the gier-eagle and the ospray;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:49

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:49 - The Lord will send a nation against you from the farthest ends of the earth, coming with the flight of an eagle; a nation whose language is strange to you;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:11 - As an eagle, teaching her young to make their flight, with her wings outstretched over them, takes them up on her strong feathers:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:23 - Saul and Jonathan were loved and pleasing; in their lives and in their death they were not parted; they went more quickly than eagles, they were stronger than lions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:26 - They go rushing on like reed-boats, like an eagle dropping suddenly on its food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:27 - Or is it by your orders that the eagle goes up, and makes his resting-place on high?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:5 - He makes your mouth full of good things, so that your strength is made new again like the eagle's.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:5 - Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:17 - The eye which makes sport of a father, and sees no value in a mother when she is old will be rooted out by the ravens of the valley, and be food for the young eagles.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:19 - The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a snake on a rock; the way of a ship in the heart of the sea; and the way of a man with a girl.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:31

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:31 - But those who are waiting for the Lord will have new strength; they will get wings like eagles: running, they will not be tired, and walking, they will have no weariness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:13 - See, he will come up like the clouds, and his war-carriages like the storm-wind: his horses are quicker than eagles. Sorrow is ours, for destruction has come on us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:40

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:40 - For the Lord has said, See, he will come like an eagle in flight, stretching out his wings against Moab.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:16 - ... the pride of your heart has been a false hope, O you who are living in the cracks of the rock, keeping your place on the top of the hill: even if you made your living-place as high as the eagle, I would make you come down, says the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:22 - See, he will come up like an eagle in flight, stretching out his wings against Bozrah: and the hearts of Edom's men of war on that day will be like the heart of a woman in birth-pains.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:19 - Those who went after us were quicker than the eagles of the heaven, driving us before them on the mountains, waiting secretly for us in the waste land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:10 - As for the form of their faces, they had the face of a man, and the four of them had the face of a lion on the right side, and the four of them had the face of an ox on the left side, and the four of them had the face of an eagle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:14 - And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of a winged one, and the second was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:3 - And say, This is what the Lord has said: A great eagle with great wings, full of long feathers of different colours, came to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:7 - And there was another eagle with great wings and thick feathers: and now this vine, pushing out its roots to him, sent out its branches in his direction from the bed where it was planted, so that he might give it water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:1 - Put the horn to your mouth. He comes like an eagle against the house of the Lord; because they have gone against my agreement, they have not kept my law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:4 - Though you go up on high like an eagle, though your house is placed among the stars, I will make you come down from there, says the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:16 - Let your head be uncovered and your hair cut off in sorrow for the children of your delight: let the hair be pulled from your head like an eagle's; for they have been taken away from you as prisoners.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:8 - And their horses are quicker than leopards and their horsemen more cruel than evening wolves; they come from far away, like an eagle in flight rushing on its food.
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