Deuteronomy 14:13

Deu 14:13. And the glede — Hebrew, הראה, haraah, a bird of the vulture kind, which evidently has its name from its sharp sight. This is omitted in Leviticus.

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glede--thought to be the same as that rendered vulture ( see on Lev 11:14).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Verse 13. The vulture after his kind] The word דאה daah is improperly translated vulture Le 11:14, and means a kite or glede. The word דיה daiyah in this verse is not only different from that in Leviticus, but means also a different animal, properly enough translated vulture. See Clarke on Le 11:14.

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(13) The glede, and the kite, and the vulture.—In Lev_11:14, “the vulture and the kite” alone are named. The Hebrew words are in Leviticus dââh and ayyah. In this place they are rââh, ayyah, and dayyah. The close resemblance between the names is noticeable. For a description of the creatures, see list in Variorum Bible.

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13. glede, falcon, kite] ra’ah, ’ayyah, dayyah, of which the first is probably a clerical error for da’ah (from da’ah, to dart, of the eagle, Deu_28:49), darter or swooper, and the third a later variant of the same, being a gloss on the first (the LXX has only two names in the v.).

Tristram (102, 98) suggests both the milvus migrans, the black kite, and the buteo vulgaris, the common buzzard: Ar. ’aḳab is applied to all smaller eagles and buzzards. The ’ayyah (from its cry; cp. Ar. yuyu), Tristram (102) takes as mulvus ictinus, the kite or red kite, ‘perhaps the keenest-sighted of all the birds of prey,’ cp. Job_28:7. Read black and red kite or buzzard and kite. LXX, γύψ and ἴκτινος.

after its kind] A phrase characteristic of P.

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Ringtail (ixion). Hebrew raa. The same bird seems to be called dae in Leviticus, by the change of the first letter, though it is there translated the kite. The ixion is a sort of white, quick-sighted vulture. --- Kite. Hebrew diae, according to Bochart, means the vulture, as Isaias (xxxiv. 15,) insinuates that this bird goes in flocks, while the kite is a solitary bird.

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).

The glede; ra"ah (har). This word occurs only here, and it is supposed by some that, by an error of the copyist, substituting r for d, it has come instead of ha; d; as used in Lev_11:14. But it is more probable, as above suggested, that the da"ah of Leviticus is represented by the dayyah of Deuteronomy, and that consequently the reading raah should be re-rained. This word, derived from ha; r; to see, to look, would appropriately designate a bird of keen sight, one of the hawk species. The bird intended may be a buzzard, of which there are now several kinds in Palestine.

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ראה — הראה וראיה and איה and דיה are names for the same bird. Why is it called ראה? Because it sees keenly. And why does Scripture prohibit it under each of its names? In order not to give an opponent occasion to argue, i.e. in order that he who regards it as forbidden may not say, “This is the ראה and is therefore forbidden”, and he who wishes to declare it as permitted will then reply, “But this is named דיה", or “this is named איה and this Scripture has not forbidden”. — In the case of birds, Scripture enumerates by name the unclean species, thus telling you that the clean birds are more numerous than the unclean (in contradistinction to quadrupeds; see vv. 4—5), for which reason Scripture mentions those by name which form the minority (Chullin 63b).

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.