Leviticus 11:30 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole. ”

Leviticus 11:30 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The identification of “the creeping things” here named is not always certain. They are most likely those which were occasionally eaten. For the “Tortoise” read “the great lizard,” for the “ferret”...
Leviticus 11:30 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

11 - 15. Ritual Cleanliness and Uncleanliness. Leviticus 11, Animals; Leviticus 12, Childbirth; Leviticus 13, Skin diseases (including tainted garments); Leviticus 14:1-32 , Purgation for skin...
Leviticus 11:30 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

ferret . hedgehog. Hebrew. 'anakah, only here. lizard: or wall-lizard. snail. Hebrew. chomet, Psalms 58:8 = shabbel.
Leviticus 11:30 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole. The ferret - אנקה anakah, from אנק anak, to groan, to cry out: a species of lizard, which derives its name from its pie...
Leviticus 11:30 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things, &c.— Dr. Shaw well observes, that this expression, creeping things that creep, or which bring forth abundantly upon the earth,...
Leviticus 11:30 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole. The ferret, х haa'anaaqaah ( H604 )]. Gesenius pronounces this to be 'a reptile, probably of the lizard gen...
Leviticus 11:30 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

(Leviticus 11-16) The Law of Clean and Unclean This section deals with the subject of ceremonial uncleanness and the method of its purification. Four main types of uncleanness are referred to, viz...
Leviticus 11:30 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

And the ferret. — The ancient legal authorities explain this name ( anâkâh ) , which only occurs here in the Hebrew Scriptures, by kipor or kipod, “an animal whose body is entirely covered wit...
Leviticus 11:30 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CLEAN AND UNCLEAN ANIMALS, AND DEFILEMENT BY DEAD BODIES Leviticus 11:1-47 WITH chapter 11 begins a new section of this book, extending to the end of chapter 15, of which the subject is the law...
Leviticus 11:30 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

We now reach the section dealing with the laws of separation. The first movement records the laws concerning health. It is impossible to enter here into any detailed dealing with the particular laws...
Leviticus 11:30 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

One general observation will be all that is necessary to offer on the law, concerning the clean and unclean among the fishes, and the fowls, and the creeping things of the earth. The grand object evi...
Leviticus 11:30 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the ferret ,.... Whatever creature is here meant, it has its name in Hebrew from the cry it makes; and so the ferret has but one note in its voice, which is a shrill, but small, whining cry: it...
Leviticus 11:30 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole. Ver. 30. The chameleon. ] A very fearful creature, and therefore easily turning himself into sundry colours. Carnal...
Leviticus 11:30 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And the mole The Hebrew word is the same with that which (Lev 11:18) we translate swan. But it is plain, that there it signifies a sort of fowl , as, in all probability, it here does a sort of...
Leviticus 11:30 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

ANIMALS ALLOWED OR DISALLOWED FOR FOOD (vv. 1-8) Never since the flood has man been commanded to be a vegetarian. After the flood Noah was told, “every moving thing that lives shall be food for yo...
Leviticus 11:30 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

20 All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you. 21 Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above...
Leviticus 11:30 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
Leviticus 11:30 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

All Creeping Things Are Unclean Especially When Dead ( Leviticus 11:29-31 ). Leviticus 11:29-31 “And these are they which are unclean to you among the creeping things that creep on the earth;...
Leviticus 11:30 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Food: Permitted and Prohibited SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 11:2 .—These are the beasts which ye shall eat. [For scientific and sanitary information respecting the animals, reptiles, birds, and...
Leviticus 11:30 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Leviticus 11:2 . The beasts which ye shall eat. The Talmud calls this chapter the Thirteenth class of Prohibitions. From the beginning of the world there was a distinction between clean and unclea...
Leviticus 11:30 - The Biblical Illustrator

These are the beasts which ye shall eat. The clean and the unclean The Mosaic Law attached great importance to meats and drinks: the Christian religion attaches none. The Apostle Peter was show...
Leviticus 11:30 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

PART III UNCLEANNESS , CEREMONIAL AND MORAL : ITS REMOVAL OR ITS PUNISHMENT SECTION I EXPOSITION THE two preceding parts having made manifest the way of approach to God...
Leviticus 11:30 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Of the Smaller Animals. General Precepts.
Leviticus 11:30 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Leviticus 11:30

Leviticus 11:30 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Leviticus 11:30 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 11:30 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Leviticus 11:30 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Leviticus 11:30 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Leviticus 11:30 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Leviticus 11:30 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 11:30 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Leviticus 11:30 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Leviticus 11:30 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Leviticus 11:30 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Leviticus 11:30 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Leviticus 11:30 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Leviticus 11:30 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Leviticus 11:30 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 11:30 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Leviticus 11:30 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Leviticus 11:30 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 11:30 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Leviticus 11:30 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Leviticus 11:30 - The Biblical Illustrator

Leviticus 11:30 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Leviticus 11:30 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Leviticus 11:30 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge