the pelican, the vulture, the cormorant,
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the pelican, the vulture, the cormorant,
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And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,
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and the pelican, and the carrion-vulture, and the cormorant;
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain
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George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain gier eagle--The Hebrew word Rachemah is manifestly identical with…
gier eagle--The Hebrew word Rachemah is manifestly identical with Rachamah, the name which the Arabs give to the common vulture of Western Asia and Egypt (Neophron percnopterus). [See on Lev 11:18].
cormorant--rather, the plungeon; a seafowl. [See on Lev 11:17].
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 17. pelican] ḳa‘ath, LXX, πελεκάν. Tristram (108) suggests the…
17. pelican] ḳa‘ath, LXX, πελεκάν. Tristram (108) suggests the roseate pelican, P. onocrotalus.
vulture] raḥamah, Ar. rakhim, ‘a small white carrion eagle,’ migratory, and haunting the abodes of men, one of the commonest carrion birds in Arabia, ‘the white scavenger’ (Doughty, passim; cp. Burton, Pilgrimage, etc., ii. 62); according to Tristram (96) the neophron percnopterus; in Arabia their flesh is forbidden meat, yet mothers give it to their children to expel worms (Doughty, i. 393). The name appears to be derived from its affection to its young, which in Deu_32:11 is imputed also to the nesher. LXX, κύκνος, swan.
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cormorant] shalak, that hurls itself on the prey. LXX, καταράκτης. Tristram (107): phalacrocorax carbo.
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