H5403

נשר

nashar

Masculine noun · Corresponding to נשר (H5404)

(Aramaic) corresponding to H5404; an eagle:—eagle.

Outline

eagle, vulture, griffon-vulture

Usages

Daniel 4:33

The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.

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Daniel 7:4

The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to it.

Breakdown

When the lion had wings, it represents the Assyrian Empire (see Lamassu). When the wings thereof were plucked, it represents the Babylonian Empire.

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