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Leviticus 11:16
16ostriches, nighthawks, seagulls, all types of falcons,
Leviticus 11:16 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
- New International Version (NIV)the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,
- English Standard Version (ESV)the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk of any kind,
- New King James Version (NKJV)the ostrich, the short-eared owl, the sea gull, and the hawk after its kind;
Context of Leviticus 11:16
14kites, all types of buzzards, 15all types of crows, ostriches, nighthawks, seagulls, all types of falcons, 17little owls, cormorants, great owls, 18barn owls, pelicans, ospreys,
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וְאֵת֙ בַּ֣ת הַֽיַּעֲנָ֔ה וְאֶת־הַתַּחְמָ֖ס וְאֶת־הַשָּׁ֑חַף וְאֶת־הַנֵּ֖ץ לְמִינֵֽהוּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Leviticus 11:16
- Deuteronomy 14:15ostriches, nighthawks, seagulls, all types of falcons,
- Psalms 102:6I am like a desert owl, like an owl living in the ruins.
- Isaiah 13:21Desert animals will lie down there. Their homes will be full of owls. Ostriches will live there, and wild goats will skip about.
- Isaiah 34:11Pelicans and herons will take possession of the land. Owls and crows will live there. He will stretch the measuring line of chaos and the plumb line of destruction over it.
- John 3:19This is why people are condemned: The light came into the world. Yet, people loved the dark rather than the light because their actions were evil.
- Ephesians 2:2You followed the ways of this present world and its spiritual ruler. This ruler continues to work in people who refuse to obey God.
- Ephesians 4:18They can’t understand because they are in the dark. They are excluded from the life that God approves of because of their ignorance and stubbornness.
- Ephesians 5:7Don’t be partners with them.
- Philippians 3:18I have often told you, and now tell you with tears in my eyes, that many live as the enemies of the cross of Christ.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:5You belong to the day and the light not to the night and the dark.
- Revelation 18:2He cried out in a powerful voice, “Fallen! Babylon the Great has fallen! She has become a home for demons. She is a prison for every evil spirit, every unclean bird, and every unclean and hated beast.
Commentaries on Leviticus 11:16
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 16The owl - היענה בת bath haiyaanah, the daughter of vociferation, the female ostrich, probably so called from the noise they make. "In the lonesome part of the night," says Dr. Shaw, "the ostriches frequently make a very doleful and hideous noise, sometimes resembling the roar of the lion; at other times, the hoarser voice of the bull or ox." He adds, "I have heard them groan as if in the deepest agonies." - Travels, 4th edition, p. 455. The ostrich is a…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 13-19Verses 13-19 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 obtain, or from the example of other nations, and which served as types of the entire range of prohibited kinds. Leviticus 11:13 The eagle - Rather, the great vulture, which the Egyptians are known to have ranked as the first among birds. Compare 2…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 13-19The list of ceremonially unclean birds includes birds of prey and scavengers. These birds often touch dead animals and blood, making them unclean and unfit for eating and offerings. Bats fly but are not birds (Leviticus 11:19). So, they are "abnormal" and ceremonially unclean.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 13-1913-19. these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls--All birds of prey are particularly ranked in the class unclean; all those which feed on flesh and carrion. No less than twenty species of birds, all probably then known, are mentioned under this category, and the inference follows that all which are not mentioned were allowed; that is, fowls which subsist on vegetable substances. From our imperfect knowledge of the natural history…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Leviticus 11
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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