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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Leviticus 11:7

The Jews would not so much as name the swine, but called it another or a strange thing, lest the naming of it should tempt them to eat this meat, which was so commonly used and so much esteemed by others.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Leviticus 11:7. _AND THE SWINE_] חזיר _chazir_, one of the most gluttonous, libidinous, and filthy quadrupeds in the universe; and, because of these qualities, sacred to the _Venus_ of the Gree...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    HE DIVIDE THE HOOF ... - It is cloven-footed and completely, etc. See Leviticus 11:3 note. Of all the quadrupeds of which the Law forbids the flesh to be eaten, the pig seems to have been regarded as...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    III. HOLINESS DEMANDED 1. The Clean and the Unclean CHAPTER 11 _ 1. Concerning the beasts on the earth (Leviticus 11:1)_ 2. Concerning things in the water (Leviticus 11:9) 3. Concerning flying an...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    FIRST PROHIBITION. Animals, etc., not allowed for food. The test is, Is it cloven-footed, and does it chew the cud? For fishes, Has it fins and scales? No test of this nature can be given for birds; l...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    11- 15. RITUAL CLEANLINESS AND UNCLEANLINESS. Leviticus 11, Animals; Leviticus 12, Childbirth; Leviticus 13, Skin diseases (including tainted garments); Leviticus 14:1, Purgation for skin diseases; L...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The flesh of the pig is forbidden because it is not a ruminant. Of the four animals here mentioned, the swine was specially obnoxious to the Jews, either owing to its being an object of heathen worshi...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Leviticus 11:1-23 [51]. The Distinction between Clean and Unclean Food [51] For the sources from which this ch. comes, and its relation from a critical point of view to Deuteronomy 14:3 ff. see App....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    THE LAWS OF PURIFICATION These laws suitably follow chs. 8 10 which record the consecration of the priests. As sacrifice was the principal element in that consecration, the laws of sacrifice (chs. 1...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THESE SHALL YE NOT EAT OF THEM THAT CHEW THE CUD, &C.— Some few creatures (which were deficient in one or other of the marks above given, either not _having,_ or not _dividing_ the hoof, or not _chewi...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND THE SWINE— The aversion of the Jews to this animal, is universally known; it is generally considered as an emblem of impurity, but was most probably forbidden chiefly on account of its tendency to...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    C. THE LAWS OF PURITY 11:1-15:30 1. LAWS OF CLEAN AND UNCLEAN FOOD 11.1-47 a. FROM THE STANDPOINT OF DIET 11:1-23 (1) QUADRUPEDS 11:1-8 TEXT 11:1-8 1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses and to Aaron, sayin...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _WHATSOEVER PARTETH THE HOOF, AND IS CLOVENFOOTED, AND CHEWETH THE CUD, AMONG THE BEASTS, THAT SHALL YE EAT._ Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and cheweth the cud. Ruminating animal...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    (LEVITICUS 11-16) THE LAW OF CLEAN AND UNCLEAN This section deals with the subject of ceremonial uncleanness and the method of its purification. Four main types of uncleanness are referred to, viz. th...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    SWINE are uncleanly in their habits and food, and the use of their flesh is believed to be the cause of certain diseases in man. The Jews still abstain from eating it....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    LEVITICUS *WORSHIP THE *LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF *HOLINESS LEVITICUS _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ This commentary HAS BEEN through Advanced Checking. Words in boxes are from the Bible, except for the words i...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AND THE SWINE, THOUGH HE DIVIDE THE HOOF, AND BE CLOVENFOOTED. — Better, _And the swine, though he is clovenfooted, and entirely separateth the hoofs._ (See Leviticus 11:3.) Having given these illustr...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ אֶת ־הַ֠ חֲזִיר כִּֽי ־מַפְרִ֨יס פַּרְסָ֜ה

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CLEAN AND UNCLEAN ANIMALS, AND DEFILEMENT BY DEAD BODIES Leviticus 11:1 WITH chapter 11 begins a new section of this book, extending to the end of chapter 15, of which the subject is the law concern...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    41-47, THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN CLEAN AND UNCLEAN Leviticus 11:1 There were good and sufficient reasons for excluding certain animals from Israel's dietary. Devout medical men insist that this is the...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    We now reach the section dealing with the laws of separation. The first movement records the laws concerning health. It is impossible to enter here into any detailed dealing with the particular laws c...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Swine. This animal was abhorred by many other nations. If an Egyptian happened to touch one, he plunged into the Nile. (Herod., ii. 47.) Few are to be seen in the East. Yet the people of Crete and of...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I make no observations on these verses, but only just to remark, that a spiritual and moral reflection may be drawn from every one. It was easy to follow up the doctrine contained in them, with an eye...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    The book of Leviticus has its own character quite as manifestly as Genesis or Exodus. Its peculiar feature is that from its very starting-point it is the revelation of what God saw in Jesus Christ our...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 11 AND 12. Priesthood being established, there comes the discernment between holy things and profane, and the judgment of defilements (chaps. 11-15), and wha...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THE SWINE, THOUGH HE DIVIDE THE HOOF, AND BE CLOVEN FOOTED,.... Not only its hoofs are parted, but cloven quite through, and so in this respect answers Moses's first descriptive character of clean...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he [is] unclean to you. Ver. 7. _And the swine._] _Anima sui data pro sale, ne carnes putrescant,_ said Clea...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And the swine_ This animal is remarkable for filthiness, and for feeding on all manner of ordure, even carrion if it falls in its way, and therefore a _sow wallowing in the mire_ is set forth as an e...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 What beasts may, 4 and what may not bee eaten. 9 What fishes. 13 What foules. 29 The creeping things which are vncleane. 1 AND the LORD spake vnto Moses, and to Aaron, saying vnto them, 2 Speak...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be cloven-footed, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you. Since pigs were nothing but scavengers in Oriental lands, and since the eating of pork...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    OF MAMMALS...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    ANIMALS ALLOWED OR DISALLOWED FOR FOOD (VV. 1-8) Never since the flood has man been commanded to be a vegetarian. After the flood Noah was told, “every moving thing that lives shall be food for you” ...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    The Book of Leviticus may be termed "the priest's guide book." This is very much its character. It is full of principles for the guidance of such as desire to live in the enjoyment of priestly nearnes...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Leviticus 11:7 swine H2386 divides H6536 (H8688) hoof H6541 cloven H8156 (H8802) hooves H8157 chew...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE ANIMALS THAT MAY OR MAY NOT BE EATEN (LEVITICUS 11:2). Leviticus 11:2 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, These are the living things which you may eat among all the beasts that are on the...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The proper food for God's people defined. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: The body is the Lord's and it is sin against God to prejudice health for the pleasing of appetite. KEY WORD:...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Leviticus 11:2. _The beasts which ye shall eat._ The Talmud calls this chapter the Thirteenth class of Prohibitions. From the beginning of the world there was a distinction between clean and unclean b...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _These are the beasts which ye shall eat._ THE CLEAN AND THE UNCLEAN The Mosaic Law attached great importance to meats and drinks: the Christian religion attaches none. The Apostle Peter was shown, b...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 11:1 The Laws on Cleanness and Uncleanness. Chap­ter 11 deals with foods that are clean and may be eaten, and foods that are unclean and may not be eaten. Chapter...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    Food: Permitted and Prohibited SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 11:2.—These are the beasts which ye shall eat. [For scientific and sanitary information respecting the animals, reptiles, birds, and fishe...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    PART III UNCLEANNESS, CEREMONIAL AND MORAL: ITS REMOVAL OR ITS PUNISHMENT SECTION I EXPOSITION THE two preceding parts having made manifest the way of approach to God by means of sacrifice and the a...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we turn in our Bibles to Leviticus eleven? Before we begin in the eleventh chapter of Leviticus, let's take a look at the first few verses of chapter twenty-eight of Deuteronomy, because sometim...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Peter 2:18; Deuteronomy 14:8; Isaiah 65:4; Isaiah 66:17; Isaiah 66:

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