E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 14:15
owl = ostrich (Revised Version) cuckow = seamew (Revised Version): i.e. sea-gull. read more
owl = ostrich (Revised Version) cuckow = seamew (Revised Version): i.e. sea-gull. read more
swan = horned owl (Revised Version) read more
gier eagle = vulture (Revised Version) or bittern. read more
heron. Very doubtful; probably = parrot. lapwing = hoopoe (Revised Version) read more
creeping thing = swarming creature: i.e. rapidly multiplying. Compare Genesis 1:20 , Genesis 1:21 ; Genesis 7:21 ; Genesis 8:17 ; Genesis 9:7 . Exodus 8:3 .Leviticus 11:29 , &c. is. Hebrew "it [is]". they. A special reading, called Sevir, reads, "it". read more
LISTS OF CLEAN AND UNCLEAN CREATURES"These are the beasts which ye may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, the hart, and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the antelope, and the chamois. And every beast that parteth the hoof, and hath the hoof cloven in two, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that may ye eat. Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that hath the hoof cloven: The camel, and the hare, and the coney, because... read more
Ver. 1-21. God, having chosen Israel for his own, separated them from the nations, adopted them as his children, and designed them for his glory, has a right to expect from them that they should answer these purposes of his grace, and approve themselves a holy people before him. And this must appear, 1. In their mournings, when all inordinate sorrow must be avoided; and every superstitious practice which the Gentiles used must be abhorred. Note; (1.) We are not forbidden to mourn for the dead;... read more
Ver. 5. The fallow-deer— It is not certain what animal is meant by the word יחמור iachmor, which we render fallow-deer. Parkhurst says, it is the antelope, an animal of the deer kind, very fierce and quarrelsome (whence its name). It is found in Syria, about the Euphrates; and the Arabs still retain its Hebrew name, calling it jachmur or jamur. See Bochart, vol. 2: p. 910. & seq. The pygarg דישׁון dishon, is also an animal of the deer kind, so called from its ashen colour; the tragelaphus... read more
Ver. 13. And the glede— The glede is a bird of the vulture kind, denominated in the Hebrew from its sharp sight: it is not specified in Leviticus. read more
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 14:13
glede. Probably = vulture. kite = falcon (Revised Version) vulture = kite(Revised Version). read more