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KITE.—1. ’ayyâh. In Lev_11:14, Deu_14:13 AV [Note: Authorized Version.] renders this word by ‘kite’ in Job_28:7 by ‘vulture’; RV [Note: Revised Version.] has uniformly ‘falcon.’ 2. dâ’âh: Lev_11:14 (AV [Note: Authorized Version.] ‘vulture’; RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘kite’). 3. dayyâh; Deu_14:13 (EV [Note: English Version.] ‘glede’ [Old Eng. kite, the black kite, and the Egyptian kite are all found in Palestine, but it is impossible to say which birds are denoted by the different words.
W. Ewing.