Leviticus 11:18

swan, not our swan: it is variously rendered "ibis", "bat", "heron", and "pelican".

pelican: or vomiting pelican.

gier eagle: or little vulture. Hebrew "the merciful".

Related Commentaries of Leviticus 11:18

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

As far as they can be identified, the birds here mentioned are such as live upon animal food. They were those which the Israelites might have been...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

First Prohibition. Animals, etc., not allowed for food. The test is, Is it cloven-footed, and does it chew the cud? For fishes, Has it fins and sca...
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 g...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle, The swan - תנשמת tinshemeth. The Septuagint translate the word by πορφυριωνα, the porphyrion, purp...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And the swan— It is very difficult to determine the true meaning of the word תנשׁמת tinshamet, here rendered swan, as in the 30th verse it is a...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossif...
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. F...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Vulture] RV 'kite.' Kite] RV 'falcon.' After his kind ] i.e. including others of the same species. Owl] RV 'ostrich.' Cuckow] RV 'seamew.'...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

And the swan. — The word here translated “swan,” which, besides the parallel list in Deut., also occurs in Leviticus 11:30 , among the names of th...
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...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

41-47, the Distinction between Clean and Unclean Leviticus 11:1-23 There were good and sufficient reasons for excluding certain animals from Is...
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 i...
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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the swan ,.... This is a bird well known to us, but it is a question whether it is intended by the word here used; for though it is so rendered...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle, Ver. 18. And the swan. ] Whose white feathers, but black skin under them, might serve to set fo...
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, “...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

9 These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them sha...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
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 inform...
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 worl...
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...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

PART III UNCLEANNESS , CEREMONIAL AND MORAL : ITS REMOVAL OR ITS PUNISHMENT SECTION I EXPOSITION THE two preceding par...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Of Animals of the Air
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

and the swan, probably an owl with a dismal cry, and the pelican, and the gier-eagle, or carrion vulture,

¹⁸ And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle,

Related Commentaries of Leviticus 11:18

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Leviticus 11:18