6538. peres
Lexicon
peres: Division, break, half

Original Word: פֶרֶס
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: perec
Pronunciation: peh'-res
Phonetic Spelling: (peh'-res)
KJV: claw, ossifrage
NASB: vulture
Word Origin: [from H6536 (פָּרַס - divide)]

1. a claw
2. also a kind of eagle

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
claw, ossifrage

From parac; a claw; also a kind of eagle -- claw, ossifrage.

see HEBREW parac

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from paras
Definition
(a bird of prey) perhaps bearded vulture
NASB Translation
vulture (2).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
מֶּ֫רֶס noun [masculine] a bird of prey, perhaps bearded vulture (gypaelus barbatus, 'ossifrage' (TristrNHB 171; FFP 94; from tearing its prey); — for bidden as food Deuteronomy 14:12 = Leviticus 11:13 (H).

Forms and Transliterations
הַפֶּ֔רֶס הפרס וְהַפֶּ֖רֶס והפרס hap·pe·res happeres vehapPeres wə·hap·pe·res wəhapperes
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Englishman's Concordance
Leviticus 11:13
HEB: הַנֶּ֙שֶׁר֙ וְאֶת־ הַפֶּ֔רֶס וְאֵ֖ת הָעָזְנִיָּֽה׃
NAS: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard,
KJV: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
INT: like the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard

Deuteronomy 14:12
HEB: מֵהֶ֑ם הַנֶּ֥שֶׁר וְהַפֶּ֖רֶס וְהָֽעָזְנִיָּֽה׃
NAS: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard,
KJV: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
INT: like the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard

2 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 6538
2 Occurrences


hap·pe·res — 1 Occ.
wə·hap·pe·res — 1 Occ.

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