Quick Definition
carrion
Strong's Definition
a kind of vulture (supposed to be tender towards its young)
Derivation: or (feminine) רָחָמָה; from H7355 (רָחַם);
KJV Usage: gier-eagle.
TWOT Reference: 2147a
Outline of Biblical Usage
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
רָחָם (ra.cham) — carrion. 1) carrion vulture 1a) perhaps an extinct bird, exact meaning unknown
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m
Birds
Egyptian vulture = relatively small type of vulture with a long, untidy, light orange-brown feathers on its neck and head, a bare yellow face, and a yellow beak that is longer and less hooked than most vultures; the rest of the body and wings are white with black wing tips; it feeds on the scraps of carrion dropped by larger vultures, since its beak is not strong enough to tear skin and meat easily; usually scavenges scraps on beaches or rubbish dumps and eats the eggs of ground-nesting waterside birds such as plovers, sandpipers, curlews, and others, which it breaks by knocking them with a large stone; ◄ Neophron percnopterus; ► unclean and therefore not to be eaten
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
רָחָם n.[m.] carrion-vulture base