Lexicon
אַיָּה
ay.yah
H0344
H:N-F Hebrew

falcon

3
Occurrences
3
Books
Hebrew
Language

ay.yah denotes a bird named in kind-based lists and described as having eyes that have not seen a hidden path.

The attested use is a bird designation: it occurs in two kind-based lists and in Job’s statement that its eye has not seen a particular path.

Senses in use

  1. A bird named in lists and in Job’s comparison · dominant

    The feminine singular absolute form occurs among birds classified “of its kind” in Deuteronomy 14:13 and Leviticus 11:14. In Job 28:7, the same form is the bird whose eye has not seen the path; the APB renders the clause “the eye of the falcon has not seen it.”

In the Anselm Paraphrase: The APB presents the term as “the falcon” in all three verses, though the paraphrase is not word-aligned. In the two list verses it stands alongside other birds, while Job 28:7 refers to its eye.

Across Scripture