Raven

Raven - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

Heb. orebh, from a root meaning "to be black" (comp. Cant. 5:11); first mentioned as "sent forth" by Noah from the ark (Gen. 8:7). "Every raven after his kind" was forbidden as food (Lev. 11:15; Deut. 14:14). Ravens feed mostly on carrion, and hence their food is procured with difficulty (Job 38:41; Ps. 147:9). When they attack kids or lambs or weak animals, it is said that they first pick out the eyes of their victims (Prov. 30:17). When Elijah was concealed by the brook Cherith, God commanded the ravens to bring him "bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening" (1 Kings 17:3-6). (See [522]ELIJAH.)

There are eight species of ravens in Palestine, and they are everywhere very numerous in that land.

Raven - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

RAVEN, n. ra'ven. [Heb. from its color. But this may be L. corvus, rapio.]

A large fowl of a black color, of the genus Corvus.

RAVEN, v.t. rav'n.

1. To devour with great eagerness; to eat with voracity.

Our natures do pursue, like rats that raven down their proper bane, a thirsty evil, and when we drink, we die.

Like a roaring lion, ravening the prey. Ezek 22.

2. To obtain by violence.

RAVEN, v.i. rav'n. To prey with rapacity.

Benjamin shall raven as a wolf. Gen 49.

RAVEN, n. rav'n.

1. Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence. Nahum 2.

2. Rapine; rapacity.