Deuteronomy 14:12
in Deuteronomy 14but these you may not eat: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the gier-eagle, and the ospray,
KJV
But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
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This verse in Deuteronomy 14
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters
on Deuteronomy 14:9-20
Water creatures get a test and no list, fins and scales, so the rule reaches species nobody has named. The birds are handled the other way, by naming what is forbidden and leaving all the rest clean, and this list runs to twenty one where Leviticus 11:13-19 gives twenty, the glede being the addition. The bat closes the list of fowls, since the grouping follows how a creature moves rather than how it is built. Leviticus 11:21-22 allowed four kinds of leaping insect, the locust among them, and verse 19 forbids every creeping thing that flieth without repeating that exception, which the Targum of Jonathan and Aben Ezra supply from the earlier text.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
But these are they of which they shall not eat,....
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.
The words behind it
8 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְזֶ֕ה | vezeh | and this | H2088 → | 1180 times |
| אֲשֶׁ֥ר | ʾasher | [is that] which | H834 → | 5497 times |
| לֹֽא־ | lo'- | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| תֹאכְל֖וּ | tokhelu | you will eat | H398 → | 810 times |
| מֵהֶ֑ם | mehem | any of <the> them | ||
| הַנֶּ֥שֶׁר | hanesher | the eagle | H5404 → | 26 times |
| וְהַפֶּ֖רֶס | vehaperes | and the bearded vulture | H6538 → | |
| וְהָֽעָזְנִיָּֽה׃ | vehaazeniyah | and the osprey | H5822 → |
וְזֶ֕הand this
vezehH2088 →1180 times
אֲשֶׁ֥ר[is that] which
ʾasherH834 →5497 times
לֹֽא־not
lo'-H3808 →5168 times
תֹאכְל֖וּyou will eat
tokheluH398 →810 times
מֵהֶ֑םany of <the> them
mehem
הַנֶּ֥שֶׁרthe eagle
hanesherH5404 →26 times
וְהַפֶּ֖רֶסand the bearded vulture
vehaperesH6538 →
וְהָֽעָזְנִיָּֽה׃and the osprey
vehaazeniyahH5822 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
About Deuteronomy
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.