Dictionary entry

VULTURE

Smith's Bible Dictionary

The rendering in the Authorized Version of the Hebrew daah, dayyah, and also in (Job 28:7) of ayyah. There seems no doubt that the Authorized Versions translation is incorrect, and that the original words refer to some of the smaller species of raptorial birds, as kites or buzzards. [KITE] But the Hebrew word nesher, invariably rendered "eagle" in the Authorized Version, is probably the vulture. [EAGLE]