Leviticus 11:16 BSB

Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְאֵת֙	ve.'Et	and <obj.>	H853 →
בַּ֣ת	bat	[the] daughter of	H1323 →
הַֽיַּעֲנָ֔ה	hai.ya.'a.Nah	the ostrich	H3284 →
וְאֶת־	ve.'Et	and <obj.>	H853 →
הַתַּחְמָ֖ס	ha.tach.Mas	the screech owl	H8464 →
וְאֶת־	ve.'Et	and <obj.>	H853 →
הַשָּׁ֑חַף	ha.Sha.chaf	the gull	H7828 →
וְאֶת־	ve.'Et	and <obj.>	H853 →
הַנֵּ֖ץ	ha.Netz	the falcon	H5322 →
לְמִינֵֽהוּ׃	le.mi.Ne.hu	to kind its	H4327 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H4327leminehuto kind its31×

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 102:6
I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.
leads to
- Zephaniah 2:14
  Herds will lie down in her midst, creatures of every kind. Both the desert owl and screech owl will roost atop her pillars. Their calls will sound from the window, but desolation will lie…
- Isaiah 38:14
  I chirp like a swallow or crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak as I look upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security.”
- Revelation 18:2
  And he cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons and a haunt for every unclean spirit, every unclean bird, and every detestable…
- Job 30:29–30
  I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.
- Isaiah 34:11–15
  The desert owl and screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and raven will dwell in it. The LORD will stretch out over Edom a measuring line of chaos and a plumb…

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

1 Thessalonians 5:5–7For you are all sons of the light and sons of the day; we do not belong to the night or to the darkness.Ephesians 5:7–11Therefore do not be partakers with them.Deuteronomy 14:15–18the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,Psalms 102:6I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.Philippians 3:18–19For as I have often told you before, and now say again even with tears: Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.Revelation 18:2And he cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons and a haunt for every unclean spirit, every unclean bird, and every detestable beast.Isaiah 34:11–15The desert owl and screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and raven will dwell in it. The LORD will stretch out over Edom a measuring line of chaos and a plumb line of destruction.John 3:19–21And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.Ephesians 2:2–3in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.Isaiah 13:21–22But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about.Ephesians 4:18–19They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

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