Leviticus 11:19 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

stork. Hebrew. chasidah, "the pious": rendered "stork" in Job 39:13 (margin) Psalms 104:17; Jeremiah 8:7; Zechariah 5:9.

heron. Hebrew. 'anaphah, "the cruel".

lapwing. Better, the hoopoe,. dirty bird.

bat.. vile creature and symbol of evil (Isaiah 2:20): comes last as. link between two classes, quadrupeds and birds.

Leviticus 11:19

19 And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.