# עַיִט (ayit)

Israeli respelling: a-yit. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H5861. 6 Old Testament occurrences.

a hawk or other bird of prey

King James renderings: bird, fowl, ravenous (bird).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/ayit-h5861

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 15:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/15/11) — And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.
- [Job 28:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/28/7) — There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture’s eye hath not seen:
- [Isaiah 18:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/18/6) — They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all…
- [Isaiah 46:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/46/11) — Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to…
- [Jeremiah 12:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/12/9) — Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to…
- [Ezekiel 39:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/39/4) — Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous…