Hebrew noun (masculine) · H5404
נֶשֶׁר
nesherneh'-sher
eagle
26 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5404is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 15 of 39Old Testament books
- 24spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5404
the eagle (or other large bird of prey)
The King James renders it: eagle.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
nesher is rendered "eagle". It stands 26 times in the Hebrew text, across fifteen books.
- Four of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 19:4‘You have seen for yourselves what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself.
- The Greek text spells it twenty-four different ways.
The first use
‘You have seen for yourselves what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself.
Exodus 19:4נְשָׁרִ֔ים
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in fifteen of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- like the eagle7
- an eagle5
- the eagle5
- like an eagle4
- more than eagles2
- eagles1
- like the eagles1
- more than eagles of1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 26, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
24 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- כְּ֝נֶ֗שֶׁר2
- כַּנֶּ֔שֶׁר2
- הַנֶּ֙שֶׁר֙1
- הַנֶּ֥שֶׁר1
- הַנֶּ֤שֶׁר1
- הַנָּ֑שֶׁר1
- הַנֶּ֨שֶׁר׀1
- כְּנֶ֙שֶׁר֙1
- כְּנֶ֖שֶׁר1
- כַנֶּ֖שֶׁר1
- כַנֶּ֙שֶׁר֙1
- כַּנֶּ֣שֶׁר1
and 12 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular7HRd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular5HNcmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular5HTd/Ncmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular4HR/Ncmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine plural2HR/Ncmpa
- noun · masculine plural1HNcmpa
- preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmpc
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine plural1HRd/Ncmpa
Exodus
one use
‘You have seen for yourselves what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself.
- נְשָׁרִ֔יםnesharimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: eagles
Leviticus
one use
Additionally, you are to detest the following birds, and they must not be eaten because they are detestable: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,
- הַנֶּ֙שֶׁר֙hanesherthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the eagle
Deuteronomy
three uses
but these you may not eat: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,
- הַנֶּ֥שֶׁרhanesherthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the eagle
The LORD will bring a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like an eagle—a nation whose language you will not understand,
- הַנָּ֑שֶׁרhanasherthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the eagle
As an eagle stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, He spread His wings to catch them and carried them on His pinions.
- כְּנֶ֙שֶׁר֙kenesherpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: like an eagle
2 Samuel
one use
Saul and Jonathan, beloved and delightful in life, were not divided in death. They were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
- מִנְּשָׁרִ֣יםminesharimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: more than eagles
Job
two uses
Psalms
one use
who satisfies you with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
- כַּנֶּ֣שֶׁרkanesherpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the eagle
Proverbs
three uses
When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.
- כְּ֝נֶ֗שֶׁרkenesherpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: like an eagle
As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.
- נָֽשֶׁר׃ פnashernoun · masculine singulartagged: an eagle
the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship at sea, and the way of a man with a maiden.
- הַנֶּ֨שֶׁר׀hanesherthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the eagle
Isaiah
one use
But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.
- כַּנְּשָׁרִ֑יםkanesharimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: like the eagles
Jeremiah
four uses
Behold, he advances like the clouds, his chariots like the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are ruined!
- מִנְּשָׁרִ֖יםminesharimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: more than eagles
For this is what the LORD says: “Behold, an eagle swoops down and spreads his wings against Moab.
- כַנֶּ֖שֶׁרkhanesherpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the eagle
The terror you cause and the pride of your heart have deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks, O occupiers of the mountain summit. Though you elevate your nest like the eagle, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.
- כַּנֶּ֙שֶׁר֙kanesherpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the eagle
Look! An eagle will soar and swoop down, spreading its wings over Bozrah. In that day the hearts of Edom’s mighty men will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
- כַנֶּ֙שֶׁר֙khanesherpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the eagle
Lamentations
one use
Those who chased us were swifter than the eagles in the sky; they pursued us over the mountains and ambushed us in the wilderness.
- מִנִּשְׁרֵ֖יminishreipreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: more than eagles of
Ezekiel
four uses
The form of their faces was that of a man, and each of the four had the face of a lion on the right side, the face of an ox on the left side, and also the face of an eagle.
- נֶ֖שֶׁרneshernoun · masculine singulartagged: an eagle
Each of the cherubim had four faces: the first face was that of a cherub, the second that of a man, the third that of a lion, and the fourth that of an eagle.
- נָֽשֶׁר׃nashernoun · masculine singulartagged: an eagle
and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘A great eagle with great wings and long pinions, full of feathers of many colors, came to Lebanon and took away the top of the cedar.
- הַנֶּ֤שֶׁרhanesherthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the eagle
But there was another great eagle with great wings and many feathers. And behold, this vine bent its roots toward him. It stretched out its branches to him from its planting bed, so that he might water it.
- נֶֽשֶׁר־nesher-noun · masculine singulartagged: an eagle
Hosea
one use
Put the ram’s horn to your lips! An eagle looms over the house of the LORD, because the people have transgressed My covenant and rebelled against My law.
- כַּנֶּ֖שֶׁרkanesherpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the eagle
Obadiah
one use
Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.
- כַּנֶּ֔שֶׁרkanesherpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the eagle
Micah
one use
Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair in mourning for your precious children; make yourselves as bald as an eagle, for they will go from you into exile.
- כַּנֶּ֔שֶׁרkanesherpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the eagle
Habakkuk
one use
Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves of the night. Their horsemen charge ahead, and their cavalry comes from afar. They fly like a vulture, swooping down to devour.
- כְּנֶ֖שֶׁרkenesherpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: like an eagle
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.