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Leviticus 11:16

the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,

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  • WEB World English Bible

    the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,

  • KJV King James Version

    And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kinds;

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Cross-references (11)

Passages linked to Leviticus 11:16 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Deuteronomy 14:15-18 the ostrich, the owl, the seagull, the hawk after its kind, the little owl, the great owl, the horned owl, the pelican, the vulture, the cormorant, the stork, the heron after its kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.
  • Psalms 102:6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl of the waste places.
  • Isaiah 13:21-22 But wild animals of the desert will lie there, and their houses will be full of jackals. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will frolic there. Wolves will cry in their fortresses, and jackals in the pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come, and her days will not be prolonged.
  • Isaiah 34:11-15 But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. The owl and the raven will dwell in it. He will stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness. They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing. Thorns will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses; and it will be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches. The wild animals of the desert will meet with the wolves, and the wild goat will cry to his fellow. Yes, the night creature shall settle there, and shall find herself a place of rest. The arrow snake will make her nest there, and lay, hatch, and gather under her shade. Yes, the kites will be gathered there, every one with her mate.
  • John 3:19-21 This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”
  • Ephesians 2:2-3 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience. We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
  • Ephesians 4:18-19 being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts. They, having become callous, gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
  • Ephesians 5:7-11 Therefore don’t be partakers with them. For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light, for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth, proving what is well pleasing to the Lord. Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
  • Philippians 3:18-19 For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
  • 1 Thessalonians 5:5-7 You are all children of light and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night, nor to darkness, so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober. For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.
  • Revelation 18:2 He cried with a mighty voice, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and she has become a habitation of demons, a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird!

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Explain this verse (10 sources)

Historical commentary, presented as a primary source — not an endorsement.

Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Or, cuckoo.

Or, cuckoo.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Lev 11:16 And the owl, and the night hawk,…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The owl, Heb. the daughter of the owl, which…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the owl,.... The great and little owls being…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 16. The owl] בת היענה bath haiyaanah, the…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Ostrich; which was served up at the tables of…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain the owl--It is generally supposed the ostrich is denoted…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 16. The owl — This is the ostrich, literally,…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 16. ostrich] Here and in Deu_14:15; Job_30:29; Isa_13:21; Isa_34:13;…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (16) And the owl.—Better, and the ostrich, as the…

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