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Deuteronomy 14:17

eagle owls,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Animals;   Birds;   Cormorant;   Pelican;   Sanitation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Animals;   Beasts;   Birds;   Cormorants;   Pelicans;   Unclean;   The Topic Concordance - Meat;   Uncleanness;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Birds;   Clean and Unclean;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Touch;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Animal;   Clean;   Cormorant;   Food;   Gier Eagle;   Pelicans;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Cormorant;   Gier Eagle;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Birds;   Carrion Vulture;   Clean, Cleanness;   Cormorant;   Pelican;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Camel;   Cormorant;   Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Food;   Gier Eagle;   Leviticus;   Pelican;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Animals, Clean and Unclean;   Birds, Clean and Unclean;   Cormorant;   Gier Eagle,;   Pelican;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Owl;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and unclean;   Cormorant;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Gier-Eagle,;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Cormorant;   Gier Eagle;   Pelican;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Abomination, Birds of;   Birds, Unclean;   Cormorant;   Fowl;   Gier-Eagle;   Pelican;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Birds;   Clean and Unclean Animals;   Cormorant;   Dietary Laws;   Pelican;   Pharisees;   Vulture;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
and the ka`at, and the rakham, and the shalakh,
King James Version
And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,
Lexham English Bible
and the desert owl and the carrion vulture and the cormorant,
English Standard Version
and the tawny owl, the carrion vulture and the cormorant,
New Century Version
desert owls, ospreys, cormorants,
New English Translation
the jackdaw, the carrion vulture, the cormorant,
Amplified Bible
the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant,
New American Standard Bible
the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant,
Geneva Bible (1587)
Nor the pellicane, nor the swanne, nor the cormorant:
Legacy Standard Bible
the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant,
Complete Jewish Bible
pelicans, barn owls, cormorants,
Darby Translation
and the pelican, and the carrion vulture, and the gannet,
Easy-to-Read Version
desert owls, ospreys, cormorants,
George Lamsa Translation
The desert cock, and the peacock,
Literal Translation
and the pelican, and the owl, and the cormorant,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
the Bytture, the Swanne, the Pellicane, the Pye,
American Standard Version
and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant,
Bible in Basic English
And the pelican and the vulture and the cormorant;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The Pellicane, the Swanne, nor the Cormorant.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and the pelican, and the carrion-vulture, and the cormorant;
King James Version (1611)
And the pellicane, and the Geer-eagle, and the cormorant,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and the cormorant, and the hawk, and its like, and the hoopoe, and the raven,
English Revised Version
and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant;
Berean Standard Bible
the desert owl, the osprey, the cormorant,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and a swan, and a siconye, and a dippere, a pursirioun, and a reremous, a cormeraunt,
Young's Literal Translation
and the pelican, and the gier-eagle, and the cormorant,
Update Bible Version
and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant,
Webster's Bible Translation
And the pelican, and the gier-eagle, and the cormorant,
World English Bible
and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant,
New King James Version
the jackdaw, the carrion vulture, the fisher owl,
New Living Translation
the desert owl, the Egyptian vulture, the cormorant,
New Life Bible
the pelican, the vulture that eats dead flesh, the cormorant,
New Revised Standard
and the desert owl, the carrion vulture and the cormorant,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and the vomiting pelican and the little vulture and the gannet;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the cormorant, the porphirion, and the night crow,
Revised Standard Version
and the pelican, the carrion vulture and the cormorant,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant,

Contextual Overview

1“You are sons of the Lord your God; do not cut yourselves or make a bald spot on your head on behalf of the dead, 2for you are a holy people belonging to the Lord your God. The Lord has chosen you to be his own possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth. 3“You must not eat any detestable thing. 4These are the animals you may eat: 5deer, gazelles, roe deer, 6You may eat any animal that has hooves divided in two and chews the cud. 7But among the ones that chew the cud or have divided hooves, you are not to eat these: 8and pigs, though they have hooves, they do not chew the cud— 9“You may eat everything from the water that has fins and scales, 10but you may not eat anything that does not have fins and scales—it is unclean for you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

gier: Rachamah, probably a species of vulture, still called in Arabic by the same name.

the cormorant: Shalach, probably the cataract, or plungeon, a sea fowl. Deuteronomy 14:17

Cross-References

Judges 11:34
When Jephthah went to his home in Mizpah, there was his daughter, coming out to meet him with tambourines and dancing! She was his only child; he had no other son or daughter besides her.
1 Samuel 18:6
As the troops were coming back, when David was returning from killing the Philistine, the women came out from all the cities of Israel to meet King Saul, singing and dancing with tambourines, with shouts of joy, and with three-stringed instruments.
2 Samuel 18:18
When he was alive, Absalom had taken a pillar and raised it up for himself in the King’s Valley, since he thought, “I have no son to preserve the memory of my name.” So he named the pillar after himself. It is still called Absalom’s Monument today.
Proverbs 14:20
A poor person is hated even by his neighbor,but there are many who love the rich.
Proverbs 19:4
Wealth attracts many friends,but a poor person is separated from his friend.
Hebrews 7:1
For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, met Abraham and blessed him as he returned from defeating the kings,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare Leviticus 11:0. The variations here, whether omissions or additions, are probably to be explained by the time and circumstances of the speaker.

Deuteronomy 14:5

The “pygarg” is a species of gazelle, and the “wild ox” and “chamois” are swift types of antelope.

Deuteronomy 14:21

The prohibition is repeated from Leviticus 22:8. The directions as to the disposal of the carcass are unique to Deuteronomy, and their motive is clear. To have forbidden the people either themselves to eat that which had died, or to allow any others to do so, would have involved loss of property, and consequent temptation to an infraction of the command. The permissions now for the first time granted would have been useless in the wilderness. During the 40 years’ wandering there could be but little opportunity of selling such carcasses; while non-Israelites living in the camp would in such a matter be bound by the same rules as the Israelites Leviticus 17:15; Leviticus 24:22. Further, it would seem (compare Leviticus 17:15) that greater stringency is here given to the requirement of abstinence from that which had died of itself. Probably on this, as on so many other points, allowance was made for the circumstances of the people. Flesh meat was no doubt often scarce in the desert. It would therefore have been a hardship to forbid entirely the use of that which had not been killed. However, now that the plenty of the promised land was before them, the modified toleration of this unholy food was withdrawn.


 
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