וְהַ֣חֲסִידָ֔ה וְהָאֲנָפָ֖ה לְמִינָ֑הּ וְהַדּוּכִיפַ֖ת וְהָעֲטַלֵּֽף
and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Deuteronomy 14:18
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Deuteronomy 14:18 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 stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
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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 stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
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King James Version Public Domain
And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and the stork, and the heron according to its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
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 the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, or the bat.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, or the bat.
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King James Version Public Domain
And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
The storke also, and the heron in his kinde, nor the lapwing, nor the backe.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
The bittern, and the charadrion, every one in their kind: the hoop also and the bat.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the lapwing, and the bat;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
You must not eat the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and the stork, and the heron according to its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
the stork, the heron after its kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
storks, any kind of heron, hoopoe, or bats.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The stork and the heron and birds of that sort, and the hoopoe and the bat.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
and the stork, and the heron after its kinds, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
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וְהָאֲנָפָ֖ה
ʼănâphâh
H601
“and · the · heron”
Conjunction + Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- Appears 2× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Leviticus 11:19
- Part of Speech
- Conjunction + Particle + Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Feminine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
an unclean bird
- perhaps an heron
- וְהַ֣חֲסִידָ֔ה chăçîydâh H2624 “and · the · stork” Conjunction + Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- וְהָאֲנָפָ֖ה ʼănâphâh H601 “and · the · heron” Conjunction + Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- לְמִינָ֑הּ mîyn H4327 “to/for · kind · her” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
- וְהַדּוּכִיפַ֖ת dûwkîyphath H1744 “and · the · hoopoe” Conjunction + Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- וְהָעֲטַלֵּֽף ʻăṭallêph H5847 “and · the · bat” Conjunction + Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, 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
- 5
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is וְהָאֲנָפָ֖ה heron H601 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
וְהָאֲנָפָ֖ה heron H601 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 5 nouns
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 15 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.
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 πελεκάν καί χαραδριός καί ὁ ὅμοιος αὐτός καί πορφυρίων καί νυκτερίς
and the pelican, and the diver and the like to it, and the red-bill and the bat.
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)
וְחַוָרִיתָא וְאִבּוּ לִזְנַהּ וְנַגַר טוּרָא וַעֲטַּלֵפָא
(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)
וְדַיְיתָא חִוַורְתָּא וְאוּכְמְתָא לִזְנָהּ וְנַגַר טוּרָא וְעַרְפְּרָא
and the stork white or black after its kind, and the heathcock, and the bat,
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 (5 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼănâphâh (“heron”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “heron” (ʼănâphâh) shape what this verse is saying?
- How does Leviticus 11:19, which shares the word «heron», read alongside this verse?
- 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?
- 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
- These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
- 5 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 5 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Deuteronomy 14:18 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.
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.
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.