Deuteronomy 14:11
in Deuteronomy 14You may eat any clean bird,
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Of all clean birds ye may eat.
KJV
Of all clean birds ye shall eat.
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This verse in Deuteronomy 14
Commentary
4 notes on this verseOf all clean birds ye shall eat. Which the Targum of Jonathan describes, everyone that has a craw, and whose crop is naked, and has a superfluous talon, and is not rapacious; but such as are unclean are expressed by name in the following verses, so that all except them might be reckoned clean and fit for food. Maimonides (p) observes, that only the number of the unclean are reckoned, so that all the rest are free. (p) Hilchot. Maacolot Asurot, c. 1. sect. 14.
This site's exposition
Of all the creatures that live in the water
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.
This site's exposition
You may eat any clean bird
Any clean bird may be eaten. Verses 12 to 18 name the unclean birds, and the law gives no mark of a clean one. John Gill reports the marks the Targum supplies: a craw, a naked crop and a spare talon.
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
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כָּל־ | kol- | every | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| צִפּ֥וֹר | tzipor | bird | H6833 → | 40 times |
| טְהֹרָ֖ה | tehorah | clean | H2889 → | 94 times |
| תֹּאכֵֽלוּ׃ | tokhelu | you will eat | H398 → | 810 times |
כָּל־every
kol-H3605 →5413 times
צִפּ֥וֹרbird
tziporH6833 →40 times
טְהֹרָ֖הclean
tehorahH2889 →94 times
תֹּאכֵֽלוּ׃you will eat
tokheluH398 →810 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
About Deuteronomy
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.