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Bible Dictionaries
Sparrow hawk
Bible Dictionary of Animals, Plants and other Objects
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		Credit: Natural England
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Sparrowhawk with wood pigeon prey
Sparrowhawk - Accipiter nisus
Credit:© Natural England/Andy Neale
22 October 2017
Credit: Imran Shah from Islamabad, Pakistan
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Comments: Taken from Pakistan by Imran Shah and released under CC-BY-SA-2.0 license
Sparrow hawk (Accipiter nisus), one of the hawks of Israel, so common that it might be regarded, in reference to the Bible, as the hawk par excellence.
Verses:
- Leviticus 11:16
- Deuteronomy 14:15
- Job 39:26
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Bibliography Information
Bible Diciontary of Animals, Plants, and other Objects. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​apo/​s/sparrow-hawk.html. 2024.
		
	Bible Diciontary of Animals, Plants, and other Objects. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​apo/​s/sparrow-hawk.html. 2024.