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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary
:
Swans rare in
Palestine
Unclean (
Lev. 11:18
18
And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle, (Leviticus 11:18)
;
Deut. 14:16
16
The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan, (Deuteronomy 14:16)
). The original seems to imply some other bird, as the ibis or water-
hen
.
Concise Bible Dictionary
:
The
Hebrew
word is
tanshemeth
, and is mentioned among the
unclean
birds
. The
swan
has been seen in
Palestine
, but it is rare, and, as it feeds on vegetation, it is supposed that
some
other
bird
is alluded to. The LXX and
the Vulgate
have
the
porphyrio
and
ibis
. The RV has “horned
owl
” (
Lev. 11:18
18
And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle, (Leviticus 11:18)
;
Deut. 14:16
16
The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan, (Deuteronomy 14:16)
). Probably some
water
fowl
is referred to, and the
purple
waterhen, of the
Rallidae
family, is a bird that would necessarily be condemned as unclean because of its feeding upon reptiles as well as birds: it seizes its prey by its
long
toes and conveys it to its mouth. It frequents the marshes bordering the Mediterranean.
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