פרס, Lev. xi, 13; Deut. xiv, 12. Interpreters are not agreed
on this bird; some read vulture,” others the black eagle,” others the
falcon.” The name _peres_, by which it is called in Hebrew, denotes to
crush, to break;” and this name agrees with our version, which implies
the bone-breaker,” which name is given to a kind of eagle, from the
circumstance of its habit of breaking the bones of its prey, after it
has eaten the flesh: some say also, that he even swallows the bones thus
broken. Onkelos uses a word which signifies naked,” and leads us to the
vulture: indeed, if we were to take the classes of birds in any thing
like a natural order in the passages here referred to, the vulture
should follow the eagle as an unclean bird. The Septuagint interpreter
also renders vulture; and so do Munster, Schindler, and the Zurick
versions.
on this bird; some read vulture,” others the black eagle,” others the
falcon.” The name _peres_, by which it is called in Hebrew, denotes to
crush, to break;” and this name agrees with our version, which implies
the bone-breaker,” which name is given to a kind of eagle, from the
circumstance of its habit of breaking the bones of its prey, after it
has eaten the flesh: some say also, that he even swallows the bones thus
broken. Onkelos uses a word which signifies naked,” and leads us to the
vulture: indeed, if we were to take the classes of birds in any thing
like a natural order in the passages here referred to, the vulture
should follow the eagle as an unclean bird. The Septuagint interpreter
also renders vulture; and so do Munster, Schindler, and the Zurick
versions.