Leviticus 11:6
in Leviticus 11The rabbit, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And the hare, because she cheweth the cud but parteth not the hoof, she is unclean unto you.
KJV
And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
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This verse in Leviticus 11
Commentary
5 notes on this verseThe hare - ארנבת arnebeth, as Bochart and others suppose, from ארה arah, to crop, and ניב nib, the produce of the ground, these animals being remarkable for destroying the fruits of the earth. That they are notorious for destroying the tender blade of the young corn, is well known. It is very likely that different species of these animals are included under the general terms שפן shaphan, and ארנבת arnebeth, for some travelers have observed that there are four or five sorts of these animals, which are used for food in the present day in those countries.
This site's exposition
spake unto Moses and to Aaron
on Leviticus 11:1-8
The speech is addressed to Aaron as well as to Moses, because Leviticus 10:10-11 had just made the priest the man who puts difference between clean and unclean and teaches it to Israel. Land animals are settled by a test rather than by a list, two signs held together, a parted hoof and a chewed cud. The four creatures named in verses 4 to 7 are the near misses, each carrying one sign and lacking the other, so the rule is argued from its hardest cases. Verse 8 forbids touching the carcase as well as eating the flesh, and that is where the chapter turns from diet to contact.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And the hare, because he cheweth the cud,....
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
They only appear to be so from working the jaws on the grasses they live on. They are not cloven-footed; and besides, it is said that from the great quantity of down upon them, they are very much subject to vermin--that in order to expel these, they eat poisonous plants, and if used as food while in that state, they are most deleterious [WHITLAW].
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
But the animals that may be eaten are those which "part the hoof as well as chew the cud," and this is another means of freeing the flesh of the animal from noxious substances.
The words behind it
12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הָאַרְנֶ֗בֶת | haarnevet | the hare | H768 → | |
| כִּֽי־ | ki- | that | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| מַעֲלַ֤ת | maalat | [is] bringing up | H5927 → | 890 times |
| גֵּרָה֙ | gerah | <of> cud | H1625 → | 11 times |
| הִ֔וא | hi' | it | H1931 → | 1879 times |
| וּפַרְסָ֖ה | ufarsah | and a hoof | H6541 → | 21 times |
| לֹ֣א | lo' | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| הִפְרִ֑יסָה | hifrisah | it divides in two | H6536 → | 14 times |
| טְמֵאָ֥ה | temeah | [is] unclean | H2931 → | 88 times |
| הִ֖וא | hi' | it | H1931 → | 1879 times |
| לָכֶֽם׃ | lakhem | to <the> you |
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
הָאַרְנֶ֗בֶתthe hare
haarnevetH768 →
כִּֽי־that
ki-H3588 →4482 times
מַעֲלַ֤ת[is] bringing up
maalatH5927 →890 times
גֵּרָה֙<of> cud
gerahH1625 →11 times
הִ֔ואit
hi'H1931 →1879 times
וּפַרְסָ֖הand a hoof
ufarsahH6541 →21 times
לֹ֣אnot
lo'H3808 →5168 times
הִפְרִ֑יסָהit divides in two
hifrisahH6536 →14 times
טְמֵאָ֥ה[is] unclean
temeahH2931 →88 times
הִ֖ואit
hi'H1931 →1879 times
לָכֶֽם׃to <the> you
lakhem
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
Deuteronomy 14:7But of those that chew the cud or have a completely divided hoof, you are not to eat the following: the camel, the rabbit, or the rock badger.
it leads to
- 2 Timothy 3:5
having a form of godliness but denying its power. Turn away from such as these!
- 2 Peter 2:18–22
With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.
- Leviticus 11:5
The rock badger, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you.
- Matthew 7:22–23
Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’
- Matthew 7:26
But everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.
- 2 Timothy 3:5
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); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.