Leviticus 11:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Leviticus 11:5 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 104:18
The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.
Proverbs 30:26
The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;
2 Timothy 3:5
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
Titus 1:16
They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
Job 36:14
They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.

Topics

Animals Coney Cud Eating Food Hoof Hygiene Meal

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-8)

Now that Aaron was consecrated a high priest over the house of God, God spoke to him with Moses, and appointed them both as joint-commissioners to deliver his will to the people. He spoke both to Moses and to Aaron about this matter; for it was particularly required of the priests that they should put a difference between clean and unclean, and teach the people to do so. After the flood, when God…

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

(vv. 5)

3-7. Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and cheweth the cud--Ruminating animals by the peculiar structure of their stomachs digest their food more fully than others. It is found that in the act of chewing the cud, a large portion of the poisonous properties of noxious plants eaten by them, passes off by the salivary glands. This power of secreting the poisonous effects of vegetable…