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Credit: Koshy Koshy from Faridabad, Haryana, India

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Comments: Neophron percopterus, also known as White Scavenger Vulture or Pharao's Chicken is a common scavenger seen in garbage dumps in North India. Tal Chapar Black Buck Santuary Oct 2014

 

Credit: Вых Пыхманн

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Comments: N. p. percnopterus in flight (Israel) showing the characteristic wing and tail shape.

 

Porphyrion is in Vulgate and D.V. (Leviticus 11:18), the equivalent for the Hebrew, rãhãm - Strongs: H7360, translated in the Septuagint as "swan"; in the Greek version, porphyrion stands for the Hebrew, tínshéméth - Strongs: H8580, interpreted as "swan" in the Latin and English Bibles. The hypothesis that the Greek translators used a Hebrew text in which the two words rãhãm and tínshéméth stood contrariwise to their present order in the Massoretic text, might account for this difference. This hypothesis is all the more probable because in Deuteronomy 14:17, porphyrion seems to be the Greek translation for rãhãm. Whatever this may be, whether the porphyrion, or purple swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio), or the Egyptian vulture, should be identified with the rãhãm remains uncertain. See § Gier-eagle.

Verses:

  • Leviticus 11:18
  • Leviticus 11:30
  • Deuteronomy 14:16
  • Deuteronomy 14:17
Bibliography Information
Bible Diciontary of Animals, Plants, and other Objects. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​apo/​p/porphyrion.html. 2024.
 
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