Leviticus 11:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

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 for food. But for the names of the following creatures, seeing the Jews themselves are uncertain and divided about them, I think it improper to trouble the unlearned reader with disputes about them, and for the learned, they may have recourse to my Latin Synopsis. I shall therefore take them according to our translation.

Leviticus 11:5

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