Hebrew noun (masculine) · H5861
עַיִט
ayitah'-yit
bird of prey
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻayiṭ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5861is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5861
a hawk or other bird of prey
The King James renders it: bird, fowl, ravenous (bird).
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
ayit is rendered "bird of prey". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Three of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 15:11And the birds of prey descended on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
And the birds of prey descended on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
Genesis 15:11הָעַ֖יִט
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a bird of prey2
- the bird of prey2
- to bird of prey of2
- ¿ a bird of prey1
- that bird of prey1
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.
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 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
- הַעַ֨יִט1
- הַעַ֖יִט1
- הָעַ֖יִט1
- הָעַ֔יִט1
- לְעֵ֣יט1
- לְעֵ֨יט1
- עַ֔יִט1
- עָ֑יִט1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular3HTd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular2HNcmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HR/Ncmsc
- question particle + noun · masculine singular1HTi/Ncmsa
Genesis
one use
And the birds of prey descended on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
- הָעַ֖יִטhaayitthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the bird of prey
Job
one use
No bird of prey knows that path; no falcon’s eye has seen it.
- עָ֑יִטʾayitnoun · masculine singulartagged: a bird of prey
Isaiah
three uses
They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey, and to the beasts of the land. The birds will feed on them in summer, and all the wild animals in winter.
- לְעֵ֣יטleeitpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to bird of prey of
- הָעַ֔יִטhaayitthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the bird of prey
I summon a bird of prey from the east, a man for My purpose from a far-off land. Truly I have spoken, and truly I will bring it to pass. I have planned it, and I will surely do it.
- עַ֔יִטʾayitnoun · masculine singulartagged: a bird of prey
Jeremiah
two uses
Is not My inheritance to Me like a speckled bird of prey with other birds of prey circling against her? Go, gather all the beasts of the field; bring them to devour her.
- הַעַ֨יִטhaayitquestion particle + noun · masculine singulartagged: ¿ a bird of prey
- הַעַ֖יִטhaayitthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: that bird of prey
Ezekiel
one use
On the mountains of Israel you will fall—you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to every kind of ravenous bird and wild beast.
- לְעֵ֨יטleeitpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to bird of prey of
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 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.