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Ossifrage

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

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Bone-breaker; in Hebrew Peries, to break; an unclean bird of the eagle family, Leviticus 11:13 Deuteronomy 14:12 . Some interpreters think the vulture is intended; others, a mountain bird like the lammergeyer of the Alps, which breaks the bones of wild goats by hunting them over precipices.

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Rand, W. W. Entry for 'Ossifrage'. American Tract Society Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ats/​o/ossifrage.html. 1859.
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