Bible Dictionaries
Hawk

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Search for…

Enter query below:

or

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z

Prev Entry
Havothjair

Next Entry
Hay

Resource Toolbox

Print Article

Additional Links

Concordances
Nave Topical Bible
• Night Hawk
• Hawk
Thompson Chain Reference
• Hawks
Dictionaries
American Tract Society
• Night-Hawk
• Hawk
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Night-Hawk
• Hawk
Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Night Hawk
• Hawk
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Hawk
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Night-Hawk
• Hawk
King James Dictionary
• Hawk
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Night-Hawk
• Hawk, Night
• Hawk
Smith Bible Dictionary
• Night-hawk
• Hawk
Wilson's Bible Types
• Hawk
Webster Dictionary
• Sea Hawk
• Hover-Hawk
• Hawking
•   (only first 3 shown)
Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Hawk
• Night-Hawk
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Black Hawk
• Edward Hawke, Baron Hawke
• Francis Lister Hawks
•   (only first 3 shown)
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Hawk
• Night-Hawk
Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• Hawk
• Night-Hawk
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Hawk
• Hawks, Cicero Stephen, D.D.
• Hawks, Francis Lister, D.D.
•   (only first 3 shown)
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Hawk-Eye State
• Hawke, Lord
The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Hawk
Lexicons
• דַּיָּה
• נֵץ , נֵץ
• תַּחְמָס

neets; implying "strong and rapid flight". Migratory in S. Europe and parts of Asia; so Job 39:26, "doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the S.?" Of the dozen lesser raptores, birds, in Palestine nearly all are summer migrants; the Falco saker and Falco lanarius , besides the smaller Falco melanopterus , Ηypotriorchis subbuteo or the hobby, etc. The sacred monuments show that one kind was sacred in Egypt. The Greek name implies "sacredness", hierax .