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Leviticus 11:5

The hyrax, because it chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, is unclean to you.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    The hyrax, because it chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, is unclean to you.

  • KJV King James Version

    And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And the rock-badger, because he cheweth the cud but parteth not the hoof, he is unclean unto you.

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Cross-references (8)

Passages linked to Leviticus 11:5 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Psalms 104:18 The high mountains are for the wild goats. The rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.
  • Proverbs 30:26 The hyraxes are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks.
  • Job 36:14 They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.
  • Matthew 7:26 Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn’t do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand.
  • Romans 2:18-24 know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law, and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth. You therefore who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal? You who say a man shouldn’t commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? You who glory in the law, do you dishonor God by disobeying the law? For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” just as it is written.
  • 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.
  • 2 Timothy 3:5 holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.
  • Titus 1:16 They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

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Explain this verse (15 sources)

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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Lev 11:5 And the coney, because he cheweth the…

Lev 11:5 And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he [is] unclean unto you.

Ver. 5. And the coney.] Which hath his name in Hebrew from hiding himself in holes. A weak, but a wise creature. {Pro 30:26} And wisdom is better than strength. {Ecc 9:15} The hare that trusts to the swiftness of her legs, is at length taken and torn in pieces; when the coney that flees to the rocks, doth easily avoid the dogs that pursue her. See Isa 40:30-31.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Some understand by the Hebrew word shaphan, a mountain…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the coney,.... Or rabbit:
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain As for the names of the following creatures, seeing…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 5. The coney] שפן shaphan, not the rabbit,…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Lev 11:5. The coney — Hebrews שׁפן, shapan. It…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The coney - The Old English name for a…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain The cherogrillus. Some suppose it to be the rabbit,…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain the coney--not the rabbit, for it is not found…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 5. The coney — The shaphan, erroneously translated coney,…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 5. the coney] The exact equivalent of the Heb.…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (5) And the coney, because he cheweth the cud,…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The coney, Hebrew, shaphan; the Hyrax Syriacus, or wabr,…
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 General Information:
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 11:5-6 Neither the hyrax nor the hare truly chews…

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