A Biblical and theological dictionary- explanatory of the history, manners, and customs of the Jews, and neighbouring nations (1833) (14764624415)

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Title: A Biblical and theological dictionary: explanatory of the history, manners, and customs of the Jews, and neighbouring nations
Year: 1833 (1830s)
Authors: Watson, Richard, 1781-1833 Bangs, Nathan, 1778-1862
Subjects: Bible Theology
Publisher: New-York, Pub. by B. Waugh and T. Mason
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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them out of sight, seem to be insensibleof fatigue. OWL. There are several varieties of thisspecies, all too well known to need a particulardescription. They are nocturnal birds of prey,and have their eyes better adapted for discern-ing objects in the evening or twilight than inthe glare of day. 1. Dp, Lev. xi, 17; Deut.xiv, 16 ; Psalm cii, 6, is in our version renderedthe little owl. Aquila, Theodotion, Jerom,Kimchi, and most of the older interpreters, arequoted to justify this rendering. Michaelis, atsome length, supports the opinion that it isthe horned owl. Bochart, though with somehesitation, suspected it to be the onocrotalus, akind of pelican, because the Hebrew namesignifies cup, and the pelican is remarkable fora pouch or bag under the lower jaw ; but thereare good reasons for supposing tliat bird to bethe riNp of the next verse. Dr. Geddes thinksthis bird the cormorant; and as it begins thelist of water fowl, and is mentioned always in WMB^f^^l .m^i.. \j.mmmmi.mmB^ ^.miMw^m
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ox 725 PAL the same contexts with nN;->, confessedly awater bird, his opinion maybe adopted. 2. t)WJ\Lev. xi, 17; Deut. xiv, 16; Isaiah xxxiv, 11.In the two first places our translators renderthis the great owl, which is strangely placedafter the little owl, and among water birds. Our translators, says the author of Scrip-ture Illustrated, seem to have thought theowl a convenient bird, as we have three owlsin two verses. Some critics think it meansa species of night bird, because the word maybe derived from r^tyj, which signifies the twi-light, the time when owls fly about. But thisinterpretation, says Parkhurst, seems veryforced; and since it is mentioned amongwater fowls, and the LXX. have, in the firstand last of those texts, rendered it by ISt?, theibis, we are disposed to adopt-it here, andthink the evidence strengthened by this, thatin a Coptic version of Lev. xi, 17, it is calledip or hip, which, with a Greek termination,would very easily make i6ls. 3. pDp, whichoccurs only