Deuteronomy 14:18
in Deuteronomy 14the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, or the bat.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
KJV
And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
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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.
The words behind it
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְהַ֣חֲסִידָ֔ה | vehachasidah | and the stork | H2624 → | |
| וְהָאֲנָפָ֖ה | vehaanafah | and the heron | H601 → | |
| לְמִינָ֑הּ | leminah | to kind its | H4327 → | 31 times |
| וְהַדּוּכִיפַ֖ת | vehadukhifat | and the hoopoe | H1744 → | |
| וְהָעֲטַלֵּֽף׃ | vehaatalef | and the bat | H5847 → |
וְהַ֣חֲסִידָ֔הand the stork
vehachasidahH2624 →
וְהָאֲנָפָ֖הand the heron
vehaanafahH601 →
לְמִינָ֑הּto kind its
leminahH4327 →31 times
וְהַדּוּכִיפַ֖תand the hoopoe
vehadukhifatH1744 →
וְהָעֲטַלֵּֽף׃and the bat
vehaatalefH5847 →
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 and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.