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Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

Leviticus 11:20

Rather, “All creeping things which have wings,” etc. The word rendered creeping things may be regarded as coextensive with our word vermin. It is derived from a verb which signifies not only to creep, but to teem, or bring forth abundantly Genesis 1:21; Genesis 8:17; Exodus 8:3; Psalms 105:30, and so easily came to denote creatures which are apt to abound, to the annoyance of mankind.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Leviticus 11:20. _ALL FOWLS THAT CREEP_] Such as the _bat_, already mentioned, which has claws attached to its leathern wings, and which serve in place of feet to crawl by, the feet and legs not...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • 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...

  • 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

    _All winged_ SWARMING _things_ The same words as in Deuteronomy 14:19; swarming creatures which also fly, i.e. flying insects. A.V. obscures for the English reader the identity of expression by render...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The connexion between these _vv._and Leviticus 11:41 is very close, and Leviticus 11:24 are generally regarded as supplementary. See pp. 162 f....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    ALL FOWLS THAT CREEP, GOING UPON ALL FOUR— Or, _All flying things that creep,_ &c. Houbigant renders it, _every winged reptile._ Dr. Shaw observes, that " ףּהעו שׁרצ _sheretz ha-oph,_ which we render _...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    (4) INSECTS 11:20-23 TEXT 11:20-23 20 All winged creeping things that go upon all fours are an abomination unto you. 21 Yet these may ye eat of all winged creeping things that go upon all fours, w...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _ALL FOWLS THAT CREEP, GOING UPON ALL FOUR, SHALL BE AN ABOMINATION UNTO YOU._ All fowls that creep ... By "fowls" here are to be understood all creatures with wings; and by "going upon all four," no...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כֹּ֚ל שֶׁ֣רֶץ הָ עֹ֔וף הַ הֹלֵ֖ךְ עַל

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • 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

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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

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  • KJV Original Language Details

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    All fowls — Flying things that crawl or creep upon the earth, and so degenerate from their proper nature, and are of a mongrel kind, which may intimate that apostates and mongrels in religion are abom...

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