אֶת הַכּ֥וֹס וְאֶת הַיַּנְשׁ֖וּף וְהַתִּנְשָֽׁמֶת
the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl,
World English Bible · Public Domain
Deuteronomy 14:16
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Deuteronomy 14:16 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
the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl,
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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
the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl,
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King James Version Public Domain
The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
the little owl, and the great owl, and the white owl,
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
the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl,
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
the little owl, the great owl, the white owl,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
the little owl, the great owl, the white owl,
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King James Version Public Domain
The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl,
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Neither the litle owle, nor the great owle, nor the redshanke,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
The heron, and the swan, and the stork,
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
the `little' owl, and the `great' owl, and the swan,
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
the little owl, and the great owl, and the waterhen,
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
the little owl, the great owl, the white owl,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
the little owl, and the great owl, and the white owl,
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Darby Bible Public Domain
the owl, and the ibis and the swan,
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
the little owl, the great owl, the horned owl,
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
little owl, eagle owl, barn owl,
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The little owl and the great owl and the water-hen;
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl;
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הַיַּנְשׁ֖וּף
yanshûwph
H3244
“the · owl”
Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- Appears 3× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Leviticus 11:17
- Part of Speech
- Particle + Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
great owl, eared owl
- an unclean animal
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- הַכּ֥וֹס kôwç H3563 “the · cup” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- הַיַּנְשׁ֖וּף yanshûwph H3244 “the · owl” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- וְהַתִּנְשָֽׁמֶת tanshemeth H8580 “and · the · unclean bird” Conjunction + Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
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 →
- 5
- words
- 4
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is הַיַּנְשׁ֖וּף owl H3244 — appearing just 3 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
הַיַּנְשׁ֖וּף owl H3244 occurs in 3 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 3 nouns
- 2 particles
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 11 words from the Hebrew and 9 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 5 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.
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 ἐρωδιός καί κύκνος καί ἴβης
and the heron, and the swan, and the stork,
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)
וְקַדְיָא וְקִפוֹפָא וּבַוְתָא
(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 קְפוּפָא וְיַת שַׁלִי נוּנָא מִן יַמָּא וְיַת צַדְיָא
the great owl, and the sea gull (catcher of fish from the sea), and the night owl,
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 5 words (4 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is yanshûwph (“owl”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word yanshûwph carries the sense “owl.” How does it shape the verse?
- How does Leviticus 11:17, which shares the word «owl», read alongside this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- Compare how Jamieson, Fausset & Brown and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 5 Hebrew ↔ 6 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 3 words in this verse.
- 4 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 5 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Deuteronomy 14:16 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 →
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.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
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.