Dict: easton - Raven

easton:

Raven @ Heb. 'orebh, from a root meaning "to be black" (comp. Cant. 5:11); first mentioned as "sent forth" by Noah from the ark kjv@Genesis:8:7). "Every raven after his kind" was forbidden as food kjv@Leviticus:11:15; kjv@Deuteronomy:14:14). Ravens feed mostly on carrion, and hence their food is procured with difficulty kjv@Job:38:41; kjv@Psalms:147:9). When they attack kids or lambs or weak animals, it is said that they first pick out the eyes of their victims kjv@Proverbs: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" (kjvKings:17:3-6). (
See ELIJAH.) There are eight species of ravens in Palestine, and they are everywhere very numerous in that land.