Leviticus Chapter 11 verse 19 Holy Bible
and the stork, the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
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The stork and the heron, and birds of that sort, and the hoopoe and the bat.
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and the stork; the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
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And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
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And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
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the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
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and the stork, the heron after its kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
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Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(19) And the stork.--Besides the parallel passage, Deuteronomy 14:18, the word (chasidah) here rendered "stork" also occurs in Job 39:13; Psalm 104:17; Jeremiah 8:7; Zechariah 5:9, and is so translated, except Job 39:13, where the Authorised Version has "wing" in the text and "stork" in the margin. Its name literally denotes in Hebrew "the pious," "the kind," and is so called because the ancients regarded it as a type of maternal and filial affection and tenderness. The mother has been known to prefer perishing with its offspring in the flames rather than desert them when its attempts to rescue them from a fire had failed. The white stork is one of the largest land birds. Its black and powerful wings strikingly contrast with the pure white of its plumage. Hence the remark "they had wings like the wings of the stork" (Zechariah 5:9). The storks build on the loftiest towers and most conspicuous ruins, and also on the tops of high trees, where they may be seen to this day by the Sea of Galilee. It is to this that the Psalmist alludes: "as for the stork, the fir-trees are her home" (Psalm 104:17). To these nests they regularly return at the proper season, which marks them as the most punctual of migratory birds; and it is to this feature in their nature that the prophet refers: "the stork in heaven knoweth her appointed times" (Jeremiah 8:7). The stork feeds on fish, reptiles, and all kinds of offal and garbage, for which reason it is here placed in the list of unclean birds. . . . Parallel Commentaries ...Hebrewthe stork,הַחֲסִידָ֔ה (ha·ḥă·sî·ḏāh)Article | Noun - feminine singularStrong's 2624: The kind, bird, a storkand any kindלְמִינָ֑הּ (lə·mî·nāh)Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singularStrong's 4327: A sort, speciesof heron;הָאֲנָפָ֖ה (hā·’ă·nā·p̄āh)Article | Noun - feminine singularStrong's 601: An unclean bird, the parrotthe hoopoeהַדּוּכִיפַ֖ת (had·dū·ḵî·p̄aṯ)Article | Noun - feminine singularStrong's 1744: Perhaps hoopoe (a ceremonially unclean bird)and the bat.הָעֲטַלֵּֽף׃ (hā·‘ă·ṭal·lêp̄)Article | Noun - masculine singularStrong's 5847: A batJump to PreviousBat Birds Heron Hoopoe Kind Kinds Lapwing Sort
