Deuteronomy 14:15
in Deuteronomy 14the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kind,
KJV
And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
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This verse in Deuteronomy 14
Commentary
2 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 Awakening1 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.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
התנשמת — This is the chauve-souris in old French; (English = bat).
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 7 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְאֵת֙ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| בַּ֣ת | bat | [the] daughter of | H1323 → | 588 times |
| הַֽיַּעֲנָ֔ה | haiyaanah | the ostrich | H3284 → | |
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הַתַּחְמָ֖ס | hatachmas | the screech owl | H8464 → | |
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הַשָּׁ֑חַף | hashachaf | the gull | H7828 → | |
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הַנֵּ֖ץ | hanetz | the falcon | H5322 → | |
| לְמִינֵֽהוּ׃ | leminehu | to kind its | H4327 → | 31 times |
וְאֵת֙and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
בַּ֣ת[the] daughter of
batH1323 →588 times
הַֽיַּעֲנָ֔הthe ostrich
haiyaanahH3284 →
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
הַתַּחְמָ֖סthe screech owl
hatachmasH8464 →
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
הַשָּׁ֑חַףthe gull
hashachafH7828 →
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
הַנֵּ֖ץthe falcon
hanetzH5322 →
לְמִינֵֽהוּ׃to kind its
leminehuH4327 →31 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
5 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Job 30:29I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.
it leads to
- Micah 1:8
Because of this I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and mourn like an ostrich.
- Psalms 102:6
I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.
- Job 17:14
and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
- Psalms 44:19
But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.
- Malachi 1:3
but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
- Micah 1:8
About Deuteronomy
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.