ChristianAnswers.Net WebBible Encyclopedia   Hebrew: Peres = to
“break” or “crush”  the lammer-geier, or bearded vulture, the
largest of the whole vulture tribe  It was an unclean bird (Lev.
11:13; Deut. 14:12). It is not a gregarious bird, and is found
but rarely in Israel.  “When the other vultures have picked the
flesh off any animal, he comes in at the end of the feast, and
swallows the bones, or breaks them, and swallows the pieces if
he cannot otherwise extract the marrow. The bones he cracks
[hence the appropriateness of the name ossifrage, i.e., ‘bone-
breaker’] by letting them fall on a rock from a great height. He
does not, however, confine himself to these delicacies, but
whenever he has an opportunity will devour lambs, kids, or
hares. These he generally obtains by pushing them over cliffs,
when he has watched his opportunity; and he has been known to
attack men while climbing rocks, and dash them against the
bottom. But tortoises and serpents are his ordinary food… No
doubt it was a lammer-geier t