Genesis 7:14

kind See note on Genesis 1:12 and Genesis 6:20.

of every sort Heb. wing. Literally, "every bird, every wing," i.e. all sorts of birds. The clause is wanting in the LXX. Some scholars prefer the rendering, "every bird, every winged thing," so that the phrase should include all winged animals, insects as well as birds.

Notice in this verse the comprehensive description of the animal world; "beast" = wild animals, "cattle" = domestic animals, "creeping things," "fowls," "winged things of all sorts," as in Genesis 1:21; Genesis 1:24-26.