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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 11:5

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.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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_...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • 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

    CONEY. the old English name for rabbit....

  • 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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ אֶת ־הַ שָּׁפָ֗ן כִּֽי ־מַעֲלֵ֤ה גֵרָה֙

  • 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 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...

  • 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 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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _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...

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

    _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...

  • 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 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...

  • 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” ...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • 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 11:5 hyrax H8227 chews H5927 (H8688) cud H1625 cloven H6536 (H8686) hooves H6541 unclean...

  • 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 Timothy 3:5; Job 36:14; Matthew 7:26; Philippians 3:18; Philip

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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....

  • When Critics Ask: A Popular Handbook on Bible Difficulties, Norman L. Geisler and Thomas Howe, 1960

    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...

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