Deuteronomy 14 · Verse 18

Deuteronomy 14:18

And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
Deuteronomy 14:18, King James Version

Deuteronomy 14:18 in other translations

BSBthe stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, or the bat.
WEBthe stork, the heron after its kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.
ASVand the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
YLTand the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the lapwing, and the bat;
DARBYand the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
BBEThe stork and the heron and birds of that sort, and the hoopoe and the bat.
WebsterAnd the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.

What does Deuteronomy 14:18 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 14:11-20

De 14:11-20. Of Birds. 11-20. Of all clean birds ye shall eat--(See on Le 11:21).

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 14:1-21

Moses tells the people of Israel how God had given them three distinguishing privileges, which were their honour, and figures of those spiritual blessings in heavenly things, with which God has in Christ blessed us. Here is election; "The Lord hath chosen thee." He did not choose them because they were by their own acts a peculiar people to him above other nations, but he chose them that they might be so by his…

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Deuteronomy 14:18 in the original Hebrew

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וְהַ֣חֲסִידָ֔הve.Ha.cha.si.Dahand the storkH2624
וְהָאֲנָפָ֖הve.ha.'a.na.Fahand the heronH601
לְמִינָ֑הּle.mi.Nahto kind itsH4327
וְהַדּוּכִיפַ֖תve.ha.du.khi.Fatand the hoopoeH1744
וְהָעֲטַלֵּֽף\׃ve.ha.'a.ta.Lefand the batH5847

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
the lapwing.{Doocheephath,} the {upupa,} or hoop, a beautiful but very unclean bird.
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Context

  • Deuteronomy 14:17

    And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,

  • Deuteronomy 14:18

    And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.

  • Deuteronomy 14:19

    And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.

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Deuteronomy 14:18 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y la cigüeña, y la garza según su especie, y la abubilla, y el murciélago.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
et la cigogne, et le héron, selon son espèce, et la huppe, et la chauve-souris.
German
Elberfelder 1871
und der Storch, und der Fischreiher nach seiner Art, und der Wiedehopf und die Fledermaus.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
onocrotalum, et charadrium, singula in genere suo: upupam quoque et vespertilionem.