King James Version
Leviticus 11:23 in the King James Version says “But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.” — study this verse from Leviticus chapter 11 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.”
Leviticus 11:23 · KJV
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.
But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.
And for these ye shall be unclean: whosoever toucheth the carcase of them shall be unclean until the even.
And whosoever beareth ought of the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“But all other flying”
H5775a bird (as covered with feathers, or rather as covering with wings), often collectively
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“feet”
H7272a foot (as used in walking); by implication, a step; by euphemistically the pudenda
“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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