And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
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Gill's Exposition
And the stork,..... A bird of passage, Jer 8:7 it has its name from kindness, which it exercises both to its dam, and to its young. Various writers (b) speak of the kindness of these birds to their…
As far as they can be identified, the birds here mentioned are such as live upon animal food. They were those which the Israelites might have been tempted to eat, either from their being easy to…
Adam Clarke
The stork - חסידה chasidah, from חסד chasad, which signifies to be abundant in kindness, or exuberant in acts of beneficence; hence applied to the stork, because of its affection to its young, and its…
Here is, 1. A general rule concerning fishes, which were clean and which not. All that had fins and scales they might eat, and only those odd sorts of water-animals that have not were forbidden, Lev…
Cambridge Bible
the stork In the two lists, and Psa 104:17 (-the fir trees are her house"); Jer 8:7 (-knoweth her appointed times," i.e. of migration), Zec 5:9 †. The Heb. word means -pious" or -merciful" (referring…