Leviticus 11 · Verse 14

Leviticus 11:14

And the vulture, and the kite after his kind;
Leviticus 11:14, King James Version

Leviticus 11:14 in other translations

BSBthe kite, any kind of falcon,
WEBthe red kite, any kind of black kite,
ASVand the kite, and the falcon after its kind,
YLTand the vulture, and the kite after its kind,
DARBYand the falcon, and the kite, after its kind;
BBEAnd the kite and the falcon, and birds of that sort;
WebsterAnd the vultur, and the kite after his kind;

What does Leviticus 11:14 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Leviticus 11:13-19

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 substances. From our…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 14 The vulture - דאה daah, from the root to fly, and therefore more probably the kite or glede, from its remarkable property of gliding or sailing with expanded wings through the air. The דאה daah is a different bird from the דיה daiyah, which signifies the vulture. See Bochart, vol. iii., col. 195. The kite - איה aiyah, thought by some to be the vulture, by others the merlin. Parkhurst thinks it has its name from the root אוה avah, to covet, because of its rapaciousness; some contend that the kite is meant. That it is a species of the hawk, most learned men allow. See Bochart, vol. iii., col..

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Leviticus 11:14 in the original Hebrew

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וְאֶת\־ve.'Etand <obj.>H853
הַ֨דָּאָ֔הha.da.'Ahthe black kiteH1676
וְאֶת\־ve.'Etand <obj.>H853
הָאַיָּ֖הha.'ai.Yahthe hawkH344
לְמִינָֽהּ\׃le.mi.Nahto kind itsH4327

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Context

  • Leviticus 11:13

    And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,

  • Leviticus 11:14

    And the vulture, and the kite after his kind;

  • Leviticus 11:15

    Every raven after his kind;

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Leviticus 11:14 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		El milano, y el buitre según su especie;
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		et le faucon, et le milan, selon son espèce;
German
Elberfelder 1871		und den Falken und die Weihe nach ihrer Art,
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		et milvum ac vulturem juxta genus suum,