Leviticus 11:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl,

Leviticus 11:17 —

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Animals Birds Clean and Unclean Animals Cormorant Creation Eating Food Hygiene

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 9-19)

Here is, 1. A general rule concerning fishes, which were clean and which not. All that had fins and scales they might eat, and only those odd sorts of water-animals that have not were forbidden, Lev. 11:9, 10. The ancients accounted fish the most delicate food (so far were they from allowing it on fasting-days, or making it an instance of mortification to eat fish); therefore God did not lay much…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

13-19. these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls--All birds of prey are particularly ranked in the class unclean; all those which feed on flesh and carrion. No less than twenty species of birds, all probably then known, are mentioned under this category, and the inference follows that all which are not mentioned were allowed; that is, fowls which subsist on vegetable substa…