Leviticus Chapter 11 verse 16 Holy Bible
and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the seamew, and the hawk after its kind,
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And the ostrich and the night-hawk and the sea-hawk, and birds of that sort;
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and the female ostrich and the male ostrich, and the sea-gull, and the hawk, after its kind;
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And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after his kind,
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And the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
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the horned owl, the screech owl, and the gull, any kind of hawk,
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and the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after its kind,
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Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(16) And the owl.--Better, and the ostrich, as the Authorised Version rightly renders it in the margin in three out of the eight passages in which it occurs, viz., Job 30:29, Isaiah 34:13; Isaiah 43:20; literally, the daughter or inhabitant of the desert. The ostrich, which is the largest bird and the swiftest of all cursorial animals, was associated by the Hebrews with the terrors of the wilderness, and was regarded by the ancients as an unnatural hybrid, as a kind of half bird and half quadruped. It dwells amongst desolated places (Isaiah 13:21; Isaiah 34:13; Jeremiah 50:39), fills the air with its doleful and hideous wails (Micah 1:8) and cruelly neglects its eggs to be hatched by the sun or trodden down under foot (Lamentations 4:3; Job 39:17-18). Owing to its proverbial stupidity, this hybrid is selected with another monster to illustrate the abundant goodness of the Lord, by showing that even this creature will become sensible of gratitude and break forth into thanksgiving and praise (Isaiah 43:20). The flesh of the ostrich was eaten by the ancient Ethiopians, Indians, and other nations. The Romans regarded ostrich brains as a great delicacy. The ostrich occasionally devours fowls and other small vertebrates like a bird of prey, and tradition assures us that ostriches consumed the body of Agag. . . . Parallel Commentaries ...Hebrewthe ostrich,בַּ֣ת (baṯ)Noun - feminine singular constructStrong's 1323: A daughterthe night hawk,הַתַּחְמָ֖ס (hat·taḥ·mās)Article | Noun - masculine singularStrong's 8464: A species of unclean bird, an owlthe gull,הַשָּׁ֑חַף (haš·šā·ḥap̄)Article | Noun - masculine singularStrong's 7828: A sea mew, gullandוְאֶת־ (wə·’eṯ-)Conjunctive waw | Direct object markerStrong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative caseany kindלְמִינֵֽהוּ׃ (lə·mî·nê·hū)Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singularStrong's 4327: A sort, speciesof hawk;הַנֵּ֖ץ (han·nêṣ)Article | Noun - masculine singularStrong's 5322: A flower, a hawkJump to PreviousBirds Cuckoo Cuckow Female Gull Hawk Horned Kind Kinds Male Night Nighthawk Night-Hawk Ostrich Owl Screech Sea Sea-Hawk Sea-Mew Sort
