Eagle
UNCLEAN
Named among the forbidden birds (Lev 11:13-19)
Would you eat it?
Mentioned in 34 verses (KJV)
Bird
Description
The eagle was too large and predatory to be eaten under the law, grouped with the other birds of prey at the top of the forbidden list. Outside of dietary rules, though, its soaring flight became one of Scripture’s favorite pictures of strength renewed.
Key verses
“And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,”
Leviticus 11:13
Symbolism
Strength renewed by waiting on God — ‘they shall mount up with wings as eagles’ (Isaiah 40:31).
All 34 referencesshow
- 2 Samuel 1:23
- Daniel 4:33
- Daniel 7:4
- Deuteronomy 14:12
- Deuteronomy 14:17
- Deuteronomy 28:49
- Deuteronomy 32:11
- Exodus 19:4
- Ezekiel 1:10
- Ezekiel 10:14
- Ezekiel 17:3
- Ezekiel 17:7
- Habakkuk 1:8
- Hosea 8:1
- Isaiah 40:31
- Jeremiah 4:13
- Jeremiah 48:40
- Jeremiah 49:16
- Jeremiah 49:22
- Job 9:26
- Job 39:27
- Lamentations 4:19
- Leviticus 11:13
- Leviticus 11:18
- Luke 17:37
- Matthew 24:28
- Micah 1:16
- Obadiah 1:4
- Proverbs 23:5
- Proverbs 30:17
- Proverbs 30:19
- Psalms 103:5
- Revelation 4:7
- Revelation 12:14