וְאֵת֙ בַּ֣ת הַֽיַּעֲנָ֔ה וְאֶת הַתַּחְמָ֖ס וְאֶת הַשָּׁ֑חַף וְאֶת הַנֵּ֖ץ לְמִינֵֽהוּ
and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kind,
World English Bible · Public Domain
Deuteronomy 14:15
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Deuteronomy 14:15 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 the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kind,
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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 the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kind,
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King James Version Public Domain
And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after his kind,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and the ostrich, and the owl, and the gull, and the hawk according to its kind,
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
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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 the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kind,
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,
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King James Version Public Domain
And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after his kind,
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kind,
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and the ostrich, and the night hawk, and the seamew, and the hawk after its kind;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Nor the ostrich, nor the nightcrow, nor the semeaw, nor the hawke after her kinde,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And the ostrich, and the owl, and the larus, and the hawk according to its kind:
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after its kind;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and the ostrich, and the nightjar [[or male ostrich]], and the seagull, and the hawk after its kind;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
and the ostrich, and the night hawk, the sea gull, any kind of hawk,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and the ostrich, and the owl, and the gull, and the hawk according to its kind,
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and the female ostrich, and the male ostrich, and the sea-gull, and the hawk after its kind;
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
the ostrich, the owl, the seagull, the hawk of any kind,
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
tawny owl, long-eared owl, gulls, any kind of hawk,
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And the ostrich and the night-hawk and the sea-hawk and birds of that sort;
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kinds;
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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הַתַּחְמָ֖ס
tachmâç
H8464
“the · owl”
Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- Appears 2× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Leviticus 11:16
- Part of Speech
- Particle + Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
a ceremonially unclean bird
- a name of the male ostrich
- (CLBL) probably the great owl
- perhaps an extinct bird, exact meaning unknown
- וְאֵת֙ ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- בַּ֣ת bath H1323 “daughter of” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
- הַֽיַּעֲנָ֔ה yaʻănâh H3284 “the · owl” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- הַתַּחְמָ֖ס tachmâç H8464 “the · owl” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- הַשָּׁ֑חַף shachaph H7828 “the · seagull” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- הַנֵּ֖ץ nêts H5322 “the · hawk” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- לְמִינֵֽהוּ mîyn H4327 “to/for · kind · his” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, 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 →
- 10
- words
- 7
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is הַתַּחְמָ֖ס owl H8464 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
הַתַּחְמָ֖ס owl H8464 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 6 nouns
- 4 particles
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 15 words from the Hebrew and 9 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter here. See the side-by-side →
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 10 Hebrew tokens and 6 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.
Cross-references
1Topical passages linked to Deuteronomy 14:15 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Job 30:29 I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.
Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
Here the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 9 words vs World English Bible 15. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
καί στρουθός καί γλαύξ καί λάρος
and the sparrow, and the owl, and the cormorant,
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
On this verse, The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓
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)
וְיָת בַּת נַעֲמִיתָא וְצִיצָא וְצִפַּר שַׁחְפָּא וְנָצָא לִזְנוֹהִי
(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)
וְיַת בְּרַת נַעֲמֵיתָא וְיַת חֲטִיפִיתָא וְיַת צִפַּר שַׁחֲפָא וְיַת בַּר נָצְצָא לִזְנוֹי
and the owl, and nighthawk, and the cuckoo, and the falcon after his kind;
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 10 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is tachmâç (“owl”). The Greek Septuagint runs shorter here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “owl” (tachmâç) shape what this verse is saying?
- Leviticus 11:16 shares the word «owl» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- Compared with the Hebrew, the Septuagint runs shorter here. What questions does that raise?
- The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
- Reading how Geneva Bible (1599) and Jamieson, Fausset & Brown read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 10 Hebrew ↔ 6 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 9 words in this verse.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 10 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Deuteronomy 14:15 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 →
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
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).