Clean and Unclean Animals

Part ILeviticus 11:143

Named Animals
Animal of Leviticus 11 (As Translated in the King James) Camel Coney Verse Bullingers Note(s) on Animal Strongs Word (abbreviated) Clean or Unclean?

4 5

none The old English name for rabbit. Only here, and Deuteronomy 14:7. Heb. arnebth.

1581 camel 8227a species of rock rabbit; prob. a hyrax 768 hare

Unclean Unclean

Hare

Unclean

Swine Eagle

7 13 Or vulture.

2386a hog (perh. as penned) 5404the eagle (or other large bird of prey) 6538a claw; also a kind of eagle

Unclean Unclean

Ossifrage

13

A rendering of the Heb. bone-breaker, from taking their prey up in the air and dropping it on a rock to break it. Or sea eagle.

Unclean

Ospray

13

5822prob. the sea eagle (from its strength) 1676the kite (from its rapid flight) 344the screamer (i.e. hawk) 6158a raven (from its dusky hue)

Unclean

Vulture Kite Raven

14 14 15

Or kite. Falcon Raven, or black birds of all kinds

Unclean Unclean Unclean

Owl

16

1323a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, lit. and fig.) 3284the ostrich (prob. from its answering cry) 8464a species of unclean bird (from its violence), perh. an owl Probably=sea-gull. 7828the gull (as thin) 5322a flower (from its brilliancy); also a hawk (from its flashing speed) Or simply owl. Only here, Deut. 14:16, and Ps. 102:6. 3563a cup (as a container); often fig. a lot (as if a potion); also some unclean bird, prob. an owl (perh. from the cuplike cavity of its eye) 7994a bird of prey, usually thought to be the pelican (from casting itself into the sea) 3244an unclean aquatic bird; prob. the heron (perh. from its blowing cry, or because the night heron is meant)

Unclean

Night Hawk

16

Unclean

Cuckow Hawk

16 16

Unclean Unclean

Little Owl

17

Unclean

Cormorant

17

Or the darter.

Unclean

Great Owl

17

=Heb. night-bird.

Unclean

Swan

18

Not our swan: it is variously rendered ibis, bat, heron, and pelican.

8580prop. a hard breather, i.e. the name of two unclean creatures, a lizard and a bird (both perh. from changing color through their irascibility), prob. The tree-toad and the water-hen 6893prob. the pelican (from vomiting) 7360a kind of vulture (supposed to be tender towards its young) 2624the kind (maternal) bird, i.e. a stork

Unclean

Pelican

18

Or vomiting pelican.

Unclean

Gier Eagle

18

Or little vulture. Heb. the merciful.

Unclean

Stork

19

Heb. ch|sdah, the pious, fendered stork in Job 39:13 (marg.). Ps. 104:17, Jeremiah 8:7, Zech. 5:9. Heb. |n~ph~h, the cruel.

Unclean

Heron

19

601an unclean bird, perh. the parrot (from its irascibility) 1744the hoopoe or else the grouse. 5847a bat

Unclean

Lapwing Bat

19 19

Better, the hoopoe, a dirty bird. A vile creature and symbol of evil (Isa. 2:20): comes last as a link between two classes, quadrupeds and birds. Swarming locust. Devouring locust.

Unclean Unclean

Locust Bald Locust

22 22

697a locust (from its rapid increase) 5556a kind of locust (from its destructiveness)

Clean Clean

Beetle Grasshopper

22 22

=chargol (or wingless) locust. =ch~rrg~b locust, Nu. 13.33, 2 Chron. 7:13, Ecc. 12:5, Is. 40:22 Heb. choled=the glider or slipper, occ. only here. Heb. akb~r=the corn destroyer. I Sam. 6:4, 5, 11, 18. Isa. 66:17. Heb. z~b=the inflated, Num. 5:27; probably=toad.

2728the leaping insect, i.e. the locust 2284a locust

Clean Clean

Weasel

29

2467a weasel (from its gliding motion) 5909a mouse (as nibbling) 6632a palanquin or canopy (as a fixture); also a species of lizard (prob. as clinging fast) 604some kind of lizard, prob. the gecko (from its wail) 3581(from its hardiness) a large lizard

Unclean

Mouse

29

Unclean

Tortoise

29

Unclean

Ferret

30

=hedgehog. Heb. |n~~h, only here.

Unclean

Chameleon

30

Unclean

Lizard

30

Or wall-lizard.

3911a kind of lizard (from its covert habits) 2546a lizard (as creeping)

Unclean

Snail

30

Heb. chomet, Ps. 58:8=shabbel.

Unclean

Mole

30

8580prop. a hard breather, i.e. the name of two unclean creatures, a lizard and a bird (both perh. from changing color through their irascibility), prob. The tree-toad and the water-hen

Unclean

Unnamed Animals
Element Land Animals Verse 3 Description Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat. Clean Cow, deer, bison, buffalo, lamb, goat Unclean Swine (doesnt chew the cud) Camel, coney, hare (does not part the hoof) Salmon Any fish that have fins and scales Shellfish (shrimp, crab, lobster, clams, oysters, etc.) Catfish

Water Animals

These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat. And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you: All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.

Air

20

Insects

2123; 42

Yet these may ye eat of every flying Locusts creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their Grasshoppers feet, to leap withal upon the earth; Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind. But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you. And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth shall be an abomination; it shall not be eaten. Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon all four, or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they are an abomination.

Most insects