Leviticus 11:19
in Leviticus 11the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
and the stork, the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
KJV
And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
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This verse in Leviticus 11
Commentary
5 notes on this verseThe stork - חסידה chasidah, from חסד chasad, which signifies to be abundant in kindness, or exuberant in acts of beneficence; hence applied to the stork, because of its affection to its young, and its kindness in tending and feeding its parents when old; facts attested by the best informed and most judicious of the Greek and Latin natural historians. See Bochart, Scheuchzer, and Parkhurst, under the word חסד chasad. It is remarkable for destroying and eating serpents, and on this account might be reckoned by Moses among unclean birds. The heron - אנפה anaphah.
This site's exposition
which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls
on Leviticus 11:13-23
For the fowls the chapter drops the test and gives a bare list, twenty names and no criterion, so a reader learns which birds are excluded without learning what excludes them. Several of the names are argued over in translation, and the older English renderings of cuckow, swan and lapwing are read now as the gull, the water hen and the hoopoe. The Hebrew word covers winged creatures rather than a modern class, which is why the bat closes the list at verse 19. Verses 21 and 22 hold the one permission in the chapter granted out of an abominable class, four kinds of locust with legs above their feet to leap withal, and Mark 1:6 has John the Baptist living on them.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And the stork,..... A bird of passage, Jer 8:7 it has its name from kindness, which it exercises both to its dam, and to its young.
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
In this great diversity of opinion nothing certain can be affirmed regarding it. Judging from the group with which it is classified, it must be an aquatic bird that is meant.
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
No less than twenty species of birds, all probably then known, are mentioned under this category, and the inference follows that all which are not mentioned were allowed; that is, fowls which subsist on vegetable substances.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְאֵת֙ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הַחֲסִידָ֔ה | hachasidah | the stork | H2624 → | |
| הָאֲנָפָ֖ה | haanafah | the heron | H601 → | |
| לְמִינָ֑הּ | leminah | to kind its | H4327 → | 31 times |
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הַדּוּכִיפַ֖ת | hadukhifat | the hoopoe | H1744 → | |
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הָעֲטַלֵּֽף׃ | haatalef | the bat | H5847 → |
וְאֵת֙and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
הַחֲסִידָ֔הthe stork
hachasidahH2624 →
הָאֲנָפָ֖הthe heron
haanafahH601 →
לְמִינָ֑הּto kind its
leminahH4327 →31 times
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
הַדּוּכִיפַ֖תthe hoopoe
hadukhifatH1744 →
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
הָעֲטַלֵּֽף׃the bat
haatalefH5847 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
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About Leviticus
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.