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<p> '''Eagle''' (Heb. ''nesker'' ; ''a tearer with the beak'' ). There can be little doubt that the eagle of [[Scripture]] is the griffon (''Gyps fulvus'' ), or great vulture, see margin of the [[R.]] [[V.,]] &nbsp;Leviticus 11:13, a bird very abundant in Palestine and adjacent countries. In spite of its name, it is a much nobler bird than a common vulture, and is scarcely more of a carrion-feeder than are all eagles. Indeed, the griffon is used by the orientals as the type of the lordly and the great. This well-known bird of prey was unclean by the Levitical law. &nbsp;Leviticus 11:13; &nbsp;Deuteronomy 14:12. It is called the "great vulture" in the margin of the [[R.]] [[V.]] The habits of the eagle are described in &nbsp;Numbers 24:21; &nbsp;Job 9:26; &nbsp;Job 39:27-30; &nbsp;Proverbs 23:5; &nbsp;Proverbs 30:17; &nbsp;Proverbs 30:19; &nbsp;Jeremiah 49:16; &nbsp;Ezekiel 17:3; &nbsp;Obadiah 1:4; &nbsp;Habakkuk 1:8; &nbsp;Habakkuk 2:9; &nbsp;Matthew 24:28; &nbsp;Luke 17:37. </p>