King James Version
Leviticus 11:20 in the King James Version says “All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.” — study this verse from Leviticus chapter 11 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.”
Leviticus 11:20 · KJV
And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle,
And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.
Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth;
Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper 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)
“All fowls”
H5775a bird (as covered with feathers, or rather as covering with wings), often collectively
“going”
H1980to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“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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