וְכֹ֨ל אֲשֶׁ֧ר אֵֽין ל֛וֹ סְנַפִּ֥יר וְקַשְׂקֶ֖שֶׂת לֹ֣א תֹאכֵ֑לוּ טָמֵ֥א ה֖וּא לָכֶֽם
and whatever doesn't have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Deuteronomy 14:10
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Deuteronomy 14:10 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
English Translation
and whatever doesn't have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
and whatever doesn't have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you.
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King James Version Public Domain
And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And all that does not have fins and scales you must not eat; it unclean to you.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
and whatever doesn't have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
but you may not eat anything that does not have fins and scales; it is unclean for you.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
but you may not eat anything that does not have fins and scales; it is unclean for you.
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King James Version Public Domain
And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
and whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye shall not eat; it is unclean unto you.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye shall not eat; it is unclean unto you.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And whatsoeuer hath no finnes nor scales, ye shall not eate: it shall be vncleane vnto you.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Such as are without fins and scales, you shall not eat, because they are unclean.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and anything which hath not fins and scales ye do not eat; unclean it `is' to you.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and anything which does not have fins and scales you do not eat—it [is] unclean to you.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
but whatever has no fins and scales you must not eat; they are unclean to you.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And all that does not have fins and scales you must not eat; it unclean to you.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
but whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye shall not eat: it shall be unclean unto you.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
You shall not eat whatever doesn’t have fins and scales. It is unclean to you.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And whatever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean to you.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
But you must not eat anything that does not have fins and scales. You must treat them as unclean.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
But any which have no skin-plates or wings for swimming, you may not take; they are unclean for you.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
and whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye shall not eat; it is unclean unto you.
Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).
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סְנַפִּ֥יר
çᵉnappîyr
H5579
“fin”
Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- Appears 5× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Leviticus 11:9
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
fin
- וְכֹ֨ל kôl H3605 “and · all” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- אֲשֶׁ֧ר ʼăsher H834 “which” Particle, Relative
- אֵֽין ʼayin H369 “nothing” Particle, Negative
- סְנַפִּ֥יר çᵉnappîyr H5579 “fin” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- וְקַשְׂקֶ֖שֶׂת qasqeseth H7193 “and · scale” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- לֹ֣א lôʼ H3808 “not” Particle, Negative
- תֹאכֵ֑לוּ ʼâkal H398 “to eat” Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural
- טָמֵ֥א ṭâmêʼ H2931 “unclean” Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- ה֖וּא hûwʼ H1931 “he” Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
About this verse
These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →
- 11
- words
- 9
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is סְנַפִּ֥יר fin H5579 — appearing just 5 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
סְנַפִּ֥יר fin H5579 occurs in 5 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 1 verb
- 3 nouns
- 1 adjective
- 1 pronoun
- 2 prepositions
- 3 particles
Verb forms
- תֹאכֵ֑לוּ Qal · Imperfect
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 16 words from the Hebrew and 17 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 11 Hebrew tokens and 14 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
καί πᾶς ὅσος οὐ εἰμί αὐτός πτερυγίον καί λεπίς οὐ ἐσθίω ἀκάθαρτος σύ εἰμί
And all that have not fins and scales you⌃ shall not eat; they are unclean to you.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
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Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וְכֹל דִי לֵית לֵהּ צִיצִין וְקַלְפִין לָא תֵיכְלוּן מְסָאָב הוּא לְכוֹן
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וְכָל דְּלֵית לֵיהּ צִיצִין וְחַרְסְפִיתִין לָא תֵיכְלוּן מְסָאָב הוּא לְכוֹן
But whatever hath neither fins nor scales you may not eat; it is unclean to you.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
Deuteronomy, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 11 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is çᵉnappîyr (“fin”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “fin” (çᵉnappîyr) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- How does Leviticus 11:9, which shares the word «fin», read alongside this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- «תֹאכֵ֑לוּ» is a Qal Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 11 Hebrew ↔ 14 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 9 words in this verse.
- 9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 11 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Deuteronomy 14:10 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).