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Fausset's Bible Dictionary

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ozniah (Leviticus 11:13; Deuteronomy 14:12). The sea eagle or fish hawk, Ρandion haliaetus , the Septuagint. Or the short-toed eagle that feeds upon reptiles. The ossifrage (peres , means "the bone-breaker," the lamergeyer , Gypaetus (eagle and vulture combined) barbatus , "the bearded vulture." "Ospray" is a corruption of "ossifrage." It flies in easy curving lines, and then pounces perpendicularly with unerring aim on a fish.

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Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Ospray'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​fbd/​o/ospray.html. 1949.
 
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