Leviticus 11:16

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kind,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאֵת֙ בַּ֣ת הַֽיַּעֲנָ֔ה וְאֶת־הַתַּחְמָ֖ס וְאֶת־הַשָּׁ֑חַף וְאֶת־הַנֵּ֖ץ לְמִינֵֽהוּ

Transliteration

And bat the-yaʿănâ and-the-taḥmās and-the-šāḥaf and-the-nēṣ to-mînēhū

Grammar Details

• *wə-ʾēt bat ha-yaʿănâ*: waw conjunction + direct object marker + feminine singular noun construct + definite article + proper noun - and daughter of the ostrich/owl
• *wə-ʾet-ha-taḥmās*: waw conjunction + direct object marker + definite article + masculine singular noun - and the night hawk/owl
• *wə-ʾet-ha-šāḥaf*: waw conjunction + direct object marker + definite article + masculine singular noun - and the cuckoo/seagull
• *wə-ʾet-ha-nēṣ*: waw conjunction + direct object marker + definite article + masculine singular noun - and the hawk/falcon
• *lə-mînēhū*: preposition + masculine singular noun + 3rd masculine singular suffix - according to its kind

Word Meanings

• *bat ha-yaʿănâ*: ostrich/owl/female ostrich
• *taḥmās*: night hawk/owl/male ostrich
• *šāḥaf*: cuckoo/seagull/sea bird
• *nēṣ*: hawk/falcon/bird of prey
• *mînēhū*: its kind/its species/its sort

Referenced Verses

• Deut 14:15-18 : 15 and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kind, 16 the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl, 17 and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant, 18 and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
• Ps 102:6 : 6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am become as an owl of the waste places.
• Isa 13:21-22 : 21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there. 22 And wolves shall cry in their castles, and jackals in the pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
• Isa 34:11-15 : 11 But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it; and the owl and the raven shall dwell therein: and he will stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness. 12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing. 13 And thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses thereof; and it shall be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches. 14 And the wild beasts of the desert shall meet with the wolves, and the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; yea, the night-monster shall settle there, and shall find her a place of rest. 15 There shall the dart-snake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shade; yea, there shall the kites be gathered, every one with her mate.
• John 3:19-21 : 19 And this is the judgment, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, lest his works should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth the truth cometh to the light, that his works may be made manifest, that they have been wrought in God.
• Eph 2:2-3 : 2 wherein {G1722} ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience; 3 among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest: —
• Eph 4:18-19 : 18 being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart; 19 who being past feeling gave themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
• Eph 5:7-9 : 7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them; 8 For ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light 9 (for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth), 10 proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord; 11 and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them;
• Phil 3:18-19 : 18 For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, [that they are] the enemies of the cross of Christ: 19 whose end is perdition, whose god is the belly, and [whose] glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.
• 1 Thess 5:5-7 : 5 for ye are all sons of light, and sons of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness; 6 so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober. 7 For they that sleep sleep in the night: and they that are drunken are drunken in the night.
• Rev 18:2 : 2 And he cried {G2479} with a mighty voice, saying, Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and is become a habitation of demons, and a hold of every unclean spirit, and a hold of every unclean and hateful bird.