Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Leviticus 11:30
The names here are uncertain. RV renders, 'the gecko, and the land-crocodile, and the lizard, and the sand-lizard, and the chameleon.'
The names here are uncertain. RV renders, 'the gecko, and the land-crocodile, and the lizard, and the sand-lizard, and the chameleon.'
Verse 30. _THE FERRET_] אנקה _anakah_, from אנק _anak_, to _groan_, to _cry out_: a species of lizard, which derives its name from its piercing, doleful cry. See _Bochart_, vol. ii., col. 1066. _THE...
The identification of “the creeping things” here named is not always certain. They are most likely those which were occasionally eaten. For the “Tortoise” read “the great lizard,” for the “ferret” the...
III. HOLINESS DEMANDED 1. The Clean and the Unclean CHAPTER 11 _ 1. Concerning the beasts on the earth (Leviticus 11:1)_ 2. Concerning things in the water (Leviticus 11:9) 3. Concerning flying an...
SECOND PROHIBITION. The dead bodies of unclean animals are not to be touched; scrupulous dread could hardly go further. The distinction is repeated from Leviticus 11:1, but a special list of unclean i...
11- 15. RITUAL CLEANLINESS AND UNCLEANLINESS. Leviticus 11, Animals; Leviticus 12, Childbirth; Leviticus 13, Skin diseases (including tainted garments); Leviticus 14:1, Purgation for skin diseases; L...
FERRET. hedgehog. Hebrew. _'anakah,_ only here. LIZARD: or wall-lizard. SNAIL. Hebrew. _chomet,_ Psalms 58:8 _= shabbel._...
For the four words which follow see R.V. mg. They occur only in this verse. _chameleon] mole_A.V. following the versions. The same Heb. word is translated _horned owl_in Leviticus 11:18. It seems st...
Uncleanness caused by Creeping Things 29. _the weasel_†] According to early Versions, and the Mishna the Heb. word should be thus translated; but some prefer the rendering -mole." _the great lizard_...
THESE ALSO SHALL BE UNCLEAN UNTO YOU AMONG THE CREEPING THINGS, &C.— Dr. Shaw well observes, that this expression, _creeping things that creep,_ or _which bring forth abundantly upon the earth,_ (see...
TEXT 11:24-43 24 And by these ye shall become unclean: whosoever toucheth the carcass of them shall be unclean until the even; 25 and whosoever beareth _aught_ of the carcass of them shall wash hi...
_AND THE FERRET, AND THE CHAMELEON, AND THE LIZARD, AND THE SNAIL, AND THE MOLE._ The ferret, х_ HAA'ANAAQAAH_ (H604)]. Gesenius pronounces this to be 'a reptile, probably of the lizard genus, having...
11:30 chomet, (c-16) Also a kind of lizard....
LEVITICUS *WORSHIP THE *LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF *HOLINESS LEVITICUS _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ This commentary HAS BEEN through Advanced Checking. Words in boxes are from the Bible, except for the words i...
AND THE FERRET. — The ancient legal authorities explain this name (_anâkâh_)_,_ which only occurs here in the Hebrew Scriptures, by _kipor_ or _kipod,_ “an animal whose body is entirely covered with s...
וְ הָ אֲנָקָ֥ה וְ הַ כֹּ֖חַ וְ...
CLEAN AND UNCLEAN ANIMALS, AND DEFILEMENT BY DEAD BODIES Leviticus 11:1 WITH chapter 11 begins a new section of this book, extending to the end of chapter 15, of which the subject is the law concern...
We now reach the section dealing with the laws of separation. The first movement records the laws concerning health. It is impossible to enter here into any detailed dealing with the particular laws c...
_Chameleon, feeds upon air, and assumes various colours. (Pliny, viii. 33.) It resembles a lizard, as does the stellio, Pliny, xxix. 4. --- Lizard. Protestant, "snail." (Haydock)_...
One general observation will be all that is necessary to offer on the law, concerning the clean and unclean among the fishes, and the fowls, and the creeping things of the earth. The grand object evid...
The book of Leviticus has its own character quite as manifestly as Genesis or Exodus. Its peculiar feature is that from its very starting-point it is the revelation of what God saw in Jesus Christ our...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 11 AND 12. Priesthood being established, there comes the discernment between holy things and profane, and the judgment of defilements (chaps. 11-15), and wha...
AND THE FERRET,.... Whatever creature is here meant, it has its name in Hebrew from the cry it makes; and so the ferret has but one note in its voice, which is a shrill, but small, whining cry: it is...
And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole. Ver. 30. _The chameleon._] A very fearful creature, and therefore easily turning himself into sundry colours. Carnal fe...
_And the mole_ The Hebrew word is the same with that which (Lev 11:18) we translate _swan._ But it is plain, that there it signifies a sort of _fowl_, as, in all probability, it here does a sort of _l...
1 What beasts may, 4 and what may not bee eaten. 9 What fishes. 13 What foules. 29 The creeping things which are vncleane. 1 AND the LORD spake vnto Moses, and to Aaron, saying vnto them, 2 Speak...
and the ferret, or rather a lizard with a sharp cry, AND THE CHAMELEON, a salamander-like lizard living in old walls, AND THE LIZARD, AND THE SNAIL, either the true lizard or one similar to the blind-...
Of the Smaller Animals. General Precepts....
ANIMALS ALLOWED OR DISALLOWED FOR FOOD (VV. 1-8) Never since the flood has man been commanded to be a vegetarian. After the flood Noah was told, “every moving thing that lives shall be food for you” ...
No text from Poole on this verse....
The Book of Leviticus may be termed "the priest's guide book." This is very much its character. It is full of principles for the guidance of such as desire to live in the enjoyment of priestly nearnes...
Leviticus 11:30 gecko H604 lizard H3581 reptile H3911 lizard H2546 chameleon H8580...
ALL CREEPING THINGS ARE UNCLEAN ESPECIALLY WHEN DEAD (LEVITICUS 11:29). Leviticus 11:29 “And these are they which are unclean to you among the creeping things that creep on the earth; the weasel, an...
CONTENTS: The proper food for God's people defined. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: The body is the Lord's and it is sin against God to prejudice health for the pleasing of appetite. KEY WORD:...
Leviticus 11:2. _The beasts which ye shall eat._ The Talmud calls this chapter the Thirteenth class of Prohibitions. From the beginning of the world there was a distinction between clean and unclean b...
_These are the beasts which ye shall eat._ THE CLEAN AND THE UNCLEAN The Mosaic Law attached great importance to meats and drinks: the Christian religion attaches none. The Apostle Peter was shown, b...
LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 11:1 The Laws on Cleanness and Uncleanness. Chapter 11 deals with foods that are clean and may be eaten, and foods that are unclean and may not be eaten. Chapter...
LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 11:29 Not only are these creatures unclean for food, but touching them WHEN THEY ARE DEAD will also defile a person....
Food: Permitted and Prohibited SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 11:2.—These are the beasts which ye shall eat. [For scientific and sanitary information respecting the animals, reptiles, birds, and fishe...
PART III UNCLEANNESS, CEREMONIAL AND MORAL: ITS REMOVAL OR ITS PUNISHMENT SECTION I EXPOSITION THE two preceding parts having made manifest the way of approach to God by means of sacrifice and the a...
Shall we turn in our Bibles to Leviticus eleven? Before we begin in the eleventh chapter of Leviticus, let's take a look at the first few verses of chapter twenty-eight of Deuteronomy, because sometim...
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