Credit: Richard Bartz, Munich aka Makro Freak
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Credit: Luca Casale
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Comments: A bearded vulture flying over Gran Paradiso National Park, Italy
Griffon — So D.V., Lev. 11:13 (whereas Deuteronomy 14:12, we read "grype") translates the Hebrew, pérés - Strongs: H6538, the "breaker" whereby the lammergeyer or bearded vulture, gypœtus barbatus, the largest and most magnificent of the birds of prey is probably intended. The opinion that the Bible here speaks of the fabulous griffon, i.e. a monster begotten from a lion and an eagle, and characterized by the beak, neck, and wings of an eagle and the legs and rump of a lion, is based only on a misinterpretation of the word.
