Deuteronomy 14:20
in Deuteronomy 14But you may eat any clean bird.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Of all clean birds ye may eat.
KJV
But of all clean fowls ye may eat.
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This verse in Deuteronomy 14
Commentary
4 notes on this verseBut of all clean fowls ye may eat. Even of all fowls, but those before excepted; Aben Ezra instances in the locust, as being a clean fowl, that might be eaten; and so the Targum of Jonathan is"every clean locust ye may eat;''see Lev 11:22.
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
But you may eat any
The permission to eat any clean bird returns here after the list of unclean birds and flying insects, closing what verse 11 opened. John Gill reports that the Targum counts the clean locust of Leviticus 11:22 among the clean flying things. John the Baptist ate locusts at Mark 1:6.
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 |
| ע֥וֹף | of | insect | H5775 → | 71 times |
| טָה֖וֹר | tahor | clean | H2889 → | 94 times |
| תֹּאכֵֽלוּ׃ | tokhelu | you will eat | H398 → | 810 times |
כָּל־every
kol-H3605 →5413 times
ע֥וֹףinsect
ofH5775 →71 times
טָה֖וֹרclean
tahorH2889 →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.