Passage Research
Leviticus 11 — Sermon Preparation
Clean and unclean animals are classified by land, water, and air — with rules on hooves, fins, wings, and swarming things — to mark out what Israel may eat. Below is a research summary for Leviticus 11, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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- verses
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- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 4
- classic sermon excerpts
- 4
- preachers & commentators
Leviticus 11 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| טָמֵא | ṭâmêʼ | H2930 | 34 | foul |
| נְבֵלָה | nᵉbêlâh | H5038 | 13 | flabby, carcase |
| שֶׁרֶץ | sherets | H8318 | 10 | swarm, active mass of minute animals |
| אָכַל | ʼâkal | H398 | 16 | eat |
| פַּרְסָה | parçâh | H6541 | 9 | claw, hoof |
| מִין | mîyn | H4327 | 9 | sort, species |
| שֶׁקֶץ | sheqets | H8263 | 8 | filth, idolatrous |
How preachers through history handled this text
4 public-domain excerpts on Leviticus 11, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“XI Of clean and unclean beasts, ver. 1-8. Fishes, ver. 9-12. Fowls, ver. 13-19. Creeping things whether flying, ver. 20-28. or creeping upon the earth, ver. 29-43. An exhortation to holiness, ver. 44, 45. The conclusion, ver. 46, 47. 1. From the laws concerning the priests, he now comes to those which belong to all the people. God spake to both of them, because the cognizance of the following matters belonged to both: the priest was to direct the people about the things forbidden or allowed, where any doubt or difficulty arose; …”
— John Wesley, Wesley's Notes on the Whole Bible, on Leviticus 11:1–46 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Egypt— Lev 11:45
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