Leviticus 11:5

coney. the old English name for rabbit.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The coney - The Old English name for a rabbit. The animal meant is the Hyrax Syriacus. It bears some resemblance to the guinea-pig or the marmot,...
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 coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you. The coney - שפן shaphan, not the rabbit, but rather a...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

These shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, &c.— Some few creatures (which were deficient in one or other of the marks above given, eithe...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The coney— Heb. שׁפן shapan; some kind of animal, so called from hiding itself by burrowing in the ground: a rabbit, or rather a large kind...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat. Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and...
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

Coney ] The word means a rabbit. But the animal meant here is the rock-badger, which somewhat resembles a guinea-pig, and is common in Palestine.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not... — Better, though he cheweth the cud, yet he divideth not. (See Leviticus 11:4 .)...
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

I make no observations on these verses, but only just to remark, that a spiritual and moral reflection may be drawn from every one. It was easy to fo...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the coney ,.... Or rabbit: because he cheweth the cud ; or "though he cheweth"; which yet, some observe, the coney or rabbit does not, it havi...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he [is] unclean unto you. Ver. 5. And the coney. ] Which hath his name in...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The coney Hebrews שׁפן, shapan. It is doubted whether we translate the word right; Bochart takes it to be a large species of rat, somewhat betwee...
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

Distinction of Meats. B. C. 1490. 1 An...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Some understand by the Hebrew word shaphan , a mountain mouse , which were of a much greater size than ordinary mice, and were used by the Arabians...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Animals That May Or May Not Be Eaten ( Leviticus 11:2-8 ). Leviticus 11:2-3 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, These are the living...
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 Mammals
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And the coney, a marmot-like animal of the size of a hare living in caves and clefts of the rocks, because he cheweth the cud, making the character...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Timothy 3:5 ; Job 36:14 ; Matthew 7:26 ; Philippians 3:18 ; Philippians 3:19 ; Proverbs 30:26 ; Psalms 104:18 ; Romans 2:18-24 ; Titus 1:1...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

As for the names of the following creatures, seeing the Jews themselves are uncertain and divided about them, it seems improper to trouble the unle...

⁵ And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.

Related Commentaries of Leviticus 11:5

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

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

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the 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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Leviticus 11:5