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Deuteronomy 14

Deut. 14:16 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The little owl
kowc (Hebrew #3563)
a cup (as a container), often figuratively, a lot (as if a potion); also some unclean bird, probably an owl (perhaps from the cup-like cavity of its eye)
KJV usage: cup, (small) owl. Compare 3599.
Pronounce: koce
Origin: from an unused root meaning to hold together
, and the great owl
yanshuwph (Hebrew #3244)
apparently from 5398; an unclean (acquatic) bird; probably the heron (perhaps from its blowing cry, or because the night-heron is meant (compare 5399)))
KJV usage: (great) owl.s
Pronounce: yan-shoof'
Origin: or yanshowph {yan-shofe'}
, and the swan
tanshemeth (Hebrew #8580)
properly, a hard breather, i.e. the name of two unclean creatures, a lizard and a bird (both perhaps from changing color through their irascibility), probably the tree-toad and the water-hen
KJV usage: mole, swan.
Pronounce: tan-sheh'-meth
Origin: from 5395
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Owl,
Swan

Cross References

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the swan.{Tinshemeth,} probably, as Michaelis supposes, the goose.
Deut. 14:16• 16The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan, (Deut. 14:16)

J. N. Darby Translation

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the owl, and the ibis and the swanc,

JND Translation Notes

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See Lev. 11.18.