KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Deuteronomy 14:15–19
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Deuteronomy 14:15
15And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
15And the owle, & the night hawke, and the cuckow, and the hawke after his kinde,
Deuteronomy 14:16
16The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,
16The little owle, and the great owle, and the swanne,
Deuteronomy 14:17
17And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,
17And the pellicane, and the Geer-eagle, and the cormorant,
Deuteronomy 14:18
18And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
18And the Storke, and the Heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the *batte.
- Leuit. 11.19.
Deuteronomy 14:19
19And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.
19And euery creeping thing that flyeth, is vncleane vnto you: they shall not be eaten.
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DEFINED WORDS
Deuteronomy 14:15
The bird called an owl in the KJV; the entry does not impose a particular modern species.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A bird of prey.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Later than, behind, following, or in pursuit of, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A class, sort, or nature.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Deuteronomy 14:16
The bird called an owl in the KJV; the entry does not impose a particular modern species.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The fowl called a swan in Leviticus and Deuteronomy; the KJV does not identify it with a particular modern species.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Deuteronomy 14:17
The fowl called a pelican in the KJV; the KJV does not identify it with a particular modern species.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The fowl called a cormorant in the KJV, named among unclean fowls and in descriptions of desolation; the KJV does not identify it with a particular modern species.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Deuteronomy 14:18
The large migratory wading bird known as the stork.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The fowl called a heron in the KJV; the KJV does not identify it with a particular modern species.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Later than, behind, following, or in pursuit of, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A class, sort, or nature.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The fowl called a lapwing in Leviticus and Deuteronomy; the KJV does not identify it with a particular modern species.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The flying creature called a bat, named among the unclean fowls in Leviticus and Deuteronomy.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Deuteronomy 14:19
Each one of all; all taken separately, without exception in the stated group.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Moving on the belly, or close to the surface of the earth or other body; moving slowly, secretly, or silently; moving insensibly; stealing along.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To move through the air; to flee or move swiftly away; or a winged insect, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Not clean or pure; filthy, morally defiled, or ceremonially impure, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Chewed and swallowed; also consumed or corroded.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
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From verse 15
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Open the full verse study29I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
From verse 19
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Open the full verse study20All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.
21Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth;
22Even 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.
23But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.
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Open the full verse study19Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
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