Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Leviticus 11:5
As for the names of the following creatures, seeing the Jews themselves are uncertain and divided about them, it seems improper to trouble the unlearned readers with disputes about them.
As for the names of the following creatures, seeing the Jews themselves are uncertain and divided about them, it seems improper to trouble the unlearned readers with disputes about them.
Verse Leviticus 11:5. _THE CONEY_] שפן _shaphan_, not the _rabbit_, but rather a creature nearly resembling it, which abounds in Judea, Palestine, and Arabia, and is called by Dr. Shaw _daman Israel_...
THE CONEY - The Old English name for a rabbit. The animal meant is the Hyrax Syriacus. It bears some resemblance to the guinea-pig or the marmot, and in its general appearance and habits Proverbs 30:2...
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...
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...
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...
CONEY. the old English name for rabbit....
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...
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....
_the coney_ The exact equivalent of the Heb. _shâphân_is given in R.V. mg. In Psalms 104:18; Proverbs 30:26 it is described as a weak and timid animal, taking refuge in the rocks, and Tristram (_Land...
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...
THE CONEY— Heb. שׁפן _shapan;_ some kind of animal, so called from _hiding itself by burrowing_ in the ground: a _rabbit,_ or rather _a large kind of mouse,_ according to Bochart, who maintains this l...
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...
_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...
(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...
CONEY] The word means a rabbit. But the animal meant here is the rock-badger, which somewhat resembles a guinea-pig, and is common in Palestine....
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...
AND THE CONEY, BECAUSE HE CHEWETH THE CUD, BUT DIVIDETH NOT... — Better, _though he cheweth the cud, yet he divideth not._ (See Leviticus 11:4.) The coney, which is the old English name for rabbit, is...
וְ אֶת ־הַ שָּׁפָ֗ן כִּֽי ־מַעֲלֵ֤ה גֵרָה֙
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...
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...
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...
The cherogrillus. Some suppose it to be the rabbit, others the hedge-hog: St. Jerome intimates that it is another kind of animal common in Palestine, which lives in the holes of rocks, or in the earth...
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...
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...
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...
AND THE CONEY,.... Or rabbit: BECAUSE HE CHEWETH THE CUD; or "though he cheweth"; which yet, some observe, the coney or rabbit does not, it having upper teeth, and therefore they think some other cre...
_And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he [is] unclean unto you._ Ver. 5. _And the coney._] Which hath his name in Hebrew from hiding himself in holes. A weak, but a w...
_The coney_ Hebrews שׁפן, _shapan._ It is doubted whether we translate the word right; Bochart takes it to be a large species of rat, somewhat between a coney and a rat, which was common both in Egypt...
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...
And the coney, a marmot-like animal of the size of a hare living in caves and clefts of the rocks, BECAUSE HE CHEWETH THE CUD, making the characteristic mouth-movements of the ruminants, BUT DIVIDETH...
OF MAMMALS...
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” ...
Some understand by the Hebrew word _shaphan_, _a mountain mouse_, which were of a much greater size than ordinary mice, and were used by the Arabians for food. But for the names of the following creat...
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...
Leviticus 11:5 hyrax H8227 chews H5927 (H8688) cud H1625 cloven H6536 (H8686) hooves H6541 unclean...
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...
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:...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
2 Timothy 3:5; Job 36:14; Matthew 7:26; Philippians 3:18; Philip
How can the Bible say that the hyrax and the rabbit chew the cud when science now knows that they do not? PROBLEM: In Leviticus 11:5-6, two animals, the rock hyrax and the rabbit, were designated as u...