From Nave’s Topical Bible
Cormorant
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 4Passages listed
- 4Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- A bird forbidden as foodLeviticus 11:17Deuteronomy 14:17Isaiah 34:11Zephaniah 2:14
The passages, in Bible order (4)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 4 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Leviticus 11:17
the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl,
Commentary on Leviticus 11:172 voices
And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
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.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871Reformed
- Deuteronomy 14:17
the desert owl, the osprey, the cormorant,
Commentary on Deuteronomy 14:171 voice
Of all clean fowls you may eat. [4.] They are further forbidden, First, To eat the flesh of any creature that died of itself, because the blood was not separated from it, and, besides the ceremonial uncleanness which it lay under (from Lev. xi. 39 ), it is not wholesome food, nor ordinarily used among us, except by the poor.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710Puritan
- Isaiah 34:11
The desert owl and screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and raven will dwell in it. The LORD will stretch out over Edom a measuring line of chaos and a plumb line of destruction.
Commentary on Isaiah 34:112 voices
But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
But the cormorant - This and the following verses contain a description of the desolations of Edom in language remarkably similar to that employed in the account of the destruction of Babylon Isa 13:20-22; Isa 14:23. The word here translated cormorant (קאת qâ'ath), occurs in this place and in Zep 2:14, where it is rendered cormorant, and in Lev 11:18; Deu 14:17; Psa 102:6, where it is rendered pelican. Bochart supposes it is the ardea stellaris, or bitourn, which frequents watery places in deserts, and makes a horrible noise. The pelican is a sea-fowl, and cannot be intended here.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- Zephaniah 2:14
Herds will lie down in her midst, creatures of every kind. Both the desert owl and screech owl will roost atop her pillars. Their calls will sound from the window, but desolation will lie on the threshold, for He will expose the beams of cedar.
Commentary on Zephaniah 2:142 voices
And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her - Nineveh was so completely destroyed, that its situation is not at present even known. The present city of Mossoul is supposed to be in the vicinity of the place where this ancient city stood. The cormorant קאת kaath; and the bittern, קפד kippod.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832Evangelical
(Verse 12 and following) But even you, Ethiopians, will be killed by my sword: and he will stretch out his hand over the North, and will destroy Assyria: and he will make a beautiful place desolate, and like a deserted wilderness. And flocks will lie down in the midst of it: all the beasts of the nations, and the pelican, and the hedgehog will dwell in its thresholds: the voice of the singer in the window, the raven on the top. For I will weaken its strength.
Jerome· Commentary on Zephaniah, 420Patristic