KITE. 1. ’ayyâh . In Leviticus 11:14 , Deuteronomy 14:13 AV [Note: Authorized Version.] renders this word by ‘kite’ in Job 28:7 by ‘vulture’; RV [Note: Revised Version.] has uniformly ‘ falcon .’ 2 . dâ’âh: Leviticus 11:14 (AV [Note: Authorized Version.] ‘vulture’; RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘kite’). 3. dayyâh; Deuteronomy 14:13 (EV [Note: English Version.] ‘glede’ [Old Eng. kite, the black kite, and the Egyptian kite are all found in Palestine, but it is impossible to say which birds are denoted by the different words.
W. Ewing.