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Leviticus 11:13-19

LEVITICUS—NOTE ON Leviticus 11:13 Almost all the unclean birds are predators and carrion-eaters (that is, they touch dead creatures and consume blood). The term translated “bird” covers a variety of creatures that fly (see esv footnote), and can include the bat.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Leviticus 11:13. _AND THESE - AMONG THE FOWLS - THE EAGLE_] נשר _nesher_, from _nashar_, to _lacerate, cut_, or _tear_ to _pieces_; hence the _eagle_, a most rapacious bird of prey, from its te...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    As far as they can be identified, the birds here mentioned are such as live upon animal food. They were those which the Israelites might have been tempted to eat, either from their being easy to obtai...

  • 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

    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...

  • 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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    FOWLS. flying things; very difficult to identify the _English_ names. EAGLE: or vulture. OSSIFRAGE.. rendering of the Hebrew "bone-breaker", from taking their prey up in the air and dropping it on....

  • 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...

  • 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 eagle_ Heb. _nésher, great vulture_R.V. mg. The _nésher_is described (Micah 1:16) as bald, as spying for prey on the peaks of the rocks, and as swooping down upon the slain (Habakkuk 1:8; Job 39:...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THESE ARE THEY WHICH YE SHALL HAVE IN ABOMINATION AMONG THE FOWLS— All rapacious birds, and such as live upon prey, are forbidden: and we read of no nations that have ever used them as food; for which...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    (3) BIRDS 11:13-19 TEXT 11:13-19 13 And these ye shall have in abomination among the birds; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the gier-eagle, and the ospray, 14 and...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THESE ARE THEY WHICH YE SHALL HAVE IN ABOMINATION AMONG THE FOWLS; THEY SHALL NOT BE EATEN, THEY ARE AN ABOMINATION: THE EAGLE, AND THE OSSIFRAGE, AND THE OSPRAY,_ These are they ... abomination...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    11:13 sea-eagle, (b-28) Or 'griffin vulture.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    OSSIFRAGE] RV 'the gier eagle,' the largest of the vulture tribe. The name 'Ossifrage,' which means the 'bone-breaker,' is derived from the practice of the bird in dropping the bones of its prey from...

  • 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...

  • 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

    YE SHALL HAVE IN ABOMINATION AMONG THE FOWLS. — The third of the four great divisions of the animal kingdom — viz., the birds of the air, in accordance with their proper sequence — is discussed in Lev...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ אֶת ־אֵ֨לֶּה֙ תְּשַׁקְּצ֣וּ מִן ־הָ עֹ֔וף

  • 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

    _The griffon. Not the monster which the painters represent, which hath no being upon earth; but a bird of the eagle kind, larger than the common. (Challoner) --- Osprey. The sea or black eagle, which...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    One general observation will be all that is necessary to offer on the law, concerning the clean and unclean among the fishes, and the fowls, and the creeping things of the earth. The grand object evid...

  • 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 Calvin's Bible Commentary

    13._And these are they which ye shall have in abomination. _The species of birds and reptiles which are forbidden, are such as common feeling almost naturally repudiates. And assuredly God dealt with...

  • 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 THESE [ARE THEY WHICH] YE SHALL HAVE IN ABOMINATION AMONG THE FOWLS,.... No description or sign is given of fowls, as of beasts and fishes, only the names of those not to be eaten; which, accordin...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And these [are they which] ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they [are] an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, Ver. 13. _The eagle._] Which...

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

    All such fowls and birds as are rapacious, and live upon prey, as the eagle, and its several kinds, hawks, kites, vultures, ravens, &c., are forbidden, and probably on a moral as well as a natural acc...

  • 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

    OF ANIMALS OF THE AIR...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the osprey, three varieties of eagles, the la...

  • 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” ...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    The true signification of these and the following Hebrew words is now lost, as the Jews at this day confess, which not falling out without God's singular providence may intimate the cessation or aboli...

  • 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 11:13 abomination H8262 (H8762) among H4480 birds H5775 eaten H398 (H8735) abomination H8263 eagle H5404

  • 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 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

    Deuteronomy 14:12; Habakkuk 1:8; Hosea 8:1; Jeremiah 4:13; Jeremiah

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Among the fowls — The true signification of the following Hebrew words is now lost, as the Jews at this day confess; which not falling out without God's singular providence may intimate the cessation...

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