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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comFausset Bible Dictionary: Vulture
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'ayah (the red kite famed for sharp sight: ); daah (GLEDE or black kite: ; raah); dayah, the Vulturidae; the words "after his kind" mark more than one species. Vultures differ from eagles and falcons by having the head and neck borer of feathers, the eyes not so sunk, the beak longer, curved only at the end. Cowardly; preferring carrion to other food; rarely killing their prey, unless it is feeble.
The griffon of the Vulturidae is noted for seeing its prey from the greatest height. Though previously scarcely known in the Crimea, during the Anglo-Russian war they remained near the camp throughout the campaign; "wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together" (; ). Besides the griffon, the lammergever and the Egyptian vulture, "Pharaoh's hens," are found in Palestine.