King James Version
Leviticus 11:12 in the King James Version says “Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.” — study this verse from Leviticus chapter 11 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.”
Leviticus 11:12 · KJV
And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:
They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination.
Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.
And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
And the vulture, and the kite after his kind;
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“nor scales”
H7193a scale (of a fish); hence a coat of mail (as composed of or covered with jointed plates of metal)
“that shall be an abomination”
H8263filth, i.e., (figuratively and specifically) an idolatrous object
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
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