Strong's Hebrew: 5822. עָזְנִיָּה (ozniyyah) -- (a bird of prey) perhaps vulture

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Lexicon

ozniyyah: (a bird of prey) perhaps vulture

Original Word: עָזְנִיָּה
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Transliteration: ozniyyah
Phonetic Spelling: (oz-nee-yaw')
Short Definition: buzzard

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
of uncertain derivation
Definition
(a bird of prey) perhaps vulture
NASB Translation
buzzard (2).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

עָזְנִיָּה noun feminine (unclean) bird of prey, apparently akin to vulture (Now^{Archaeology i. 84, 116}), named + נֶשֶׁר, מֶּרֶס Deuteronomy 14:12; Leviticus 11:13 (H); = osprey Tristr^{NHB 184} Dr^{Deuteronomy 14:12} (others vulture Di^{Leviticus 11:13}) (√ unknown; conjectures see in Di; perhaps foreign word).

Strong's

ospray

Probably feminine of oz; probably the sea-eagle (from its strength) -- ospray.

see HEBREW oz