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22 Bible Verses About Eagles

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  • Exodus 19:4 and Deuteronomy 32:11 picture God carrying Israel out of Egypt and through the wilderness as an eagle carries its young.
  • Isaiah 40:31 promises that those who wait for the Lord “shall mount up with wings like eagles,” in answer to Israel’s complaint that its way was hidden from God (40:27).
  • The prophets use the eagle for invading armies: the Chaldeans in Habakkuk 1:8, and the enemies of Moab and Edom in Jeremiah 48:40 and 49:22.
  • The Hebrew nesher can mean griffon-vulture or eagle, so the ESV has “vulture” in Hosea 8:1 where the King James Version has “eagle”; the Greek aetos is “vultures” in the ESV of Matthew 24:28.
  • Leviticus 11:13 puts the eagle first among the birds Israel was not to eat.

The Bible uses the eagle as a picture of God’s care, of strength renewed, and of armies sent in judgment. God carries Israel “on eagles’ wings” (Exodus 19:4), those who wait for the Lord “shall mount up with wings like eagles” (Isaiah 40:31), and Habakkuk 1:8 gives invaders an eagle’s speed. The Hebrew word is nesher, which the Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon defines as “griffon-vulture, eagle.” The ESV translates it “eagle” in Isaiah 40:31 and “vulture” in Hosea 8:1, where the King…

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Scripture quotations are from the English Standard Version.

Strong’s Hebrew 5404, נֶשֶׁר (nesher): Brown-Driver-Briggs gives “griffon-vulture, eagle.” biblehub.com/hebrew/5404

Strong’s Greek 105, ἀετός (aetos): eagle; Thayer’s lexicon on Matthew 24:28, Luke 17:37 and Job 39:30, “since eagles are said seldom or never to go in quest of carrion.” biblehub.com/greek/105

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