King James Version
Deuteronomy 14:16 in the King James Version says “The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,” — study this verse from Deuteronomy chapter 14 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,”
Deuteronomy 14:16 · KJV
And every raven after his kind,
And the owl , and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,
And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,
And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
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properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“The little owl”
H3563a cup (as a container), often figuratively, some unclean bird, probably an owl (perhaps from the cup-like cavity of its eye)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“and the great owl”
H3244an unclean (acquatic) bird; probably the heron (perhaps from its blowing cry, or because the nightheron is meant)
“and the swan”
H8580properly, a hard breather, i.e., the name of two unclean creatures, a lizard and a bird (both perhaps from changing color through their irascibility),
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