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Lev. 11:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

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

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coney, Shaphan,

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the coney.{Shaphan,} most probably an animal resembling the rabbit, called by Dr. Shaw, {daman} (probably for {ganam}) Israel, "Israel's lamb," and by Bruce, {ashkoko,} which name he imagines is "derived from the singularity of these long herenacious hairs, which, like small thorns, grow about his back, and which an Amhara are called {ashok.}"

This curious animal abounds in Judea, Palestine, Arabia, and Ethiopia; and is described as being about seventeen inches when sitting. It has no tail; and at first sight gives the idea of a rat. Its colour is grey, mixed with reddish brown; the belly white, the body covered with strong polished hairs, for the most part about two inches in length; the ears round, and not pointed; the feet round, of a soft, pulpy, tender substance; the toes projecting beyond the nails, which are rather broad than sharp; the upper jaw is longer than the other; it lives upon grain, fruit, and roots, and certainly chews the cud; and it does not burrow like the hare and rabbit, but lives in clefts of the rocks.

Psa. 104:18• ¹⁸The high mountains are for the wild goats; the cliffs, a refuge for the rock-badgers. (Psa. 104:18)

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Prov. 30:26• ²⁶the rock-badgers are but a feeble folk, yet they make their house in the cliff; (Prov. 30:26)

but divideth.

Job 36:14• ¹⁴Their soul dieth in youth, and their life is among the unclean. (Job 36:14)

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Matt. 7:26• ²⁶And every one who hears these my words and does not do them, he shall be likened to a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand; (Matt. 7:26)

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Rom. 2:18‑24• ¹⁸and knowest the will, and discerningly approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;
¹⁹and hast confidence that thou thyself art a leader of the blind, a light of those who are in darkness,
²⁰an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law:
²¹thou then that teachest another, dost thou not teach thyself? thou that preachest not to steal, dost thou steal?
²²thou that sayest man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
²³thou who boastest in law, dost thou by transgression of the law dishonour God?
²⁴For the name of God is blasphemed on your account among the nations, according as it is written. (Rom. 2:18‑24)

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Phil. 3:18‑19• ¹⁸(for many walk of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
¹⁹whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and their glory in their shame, who mind earthly things:) (Phil. 3:18‑19)

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2 Tim. 3:5• ⁵having a form of piety but denying the power of it: and from these turn away. (2 Tim. 3:5)

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Titus 1:16• ¹⁶They profess to know God, but in works deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and found worthless as to every good work. (Titus 1:16)

J. N. Darby Translation

and the rock-badger, for it cheweth the cud, but hath not cloven hoofs—it shall be unclean unto you;