Fowl
Bring forth with thee every living thing that [is] with thee,
of all flesh, [both] of fowl, and of cattle, and of every
creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may
breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply
upon the earth....
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Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and
unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not
make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any
manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I
have separated from you as unclean....
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And with every living creature that [is] with you, of the
fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you;
from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth....
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foul (`oph; peteinon): The word is now generally restricted
to the larger, especially the edible birds, but formerly it
denoted all flying creatures; in Lev 11:20 the King James
Version we have even, "all fowls that creep, going upon all
four," 11:21, "every flying creeping thing that goeth upon
all four."
1. Old Testament Terms and References...
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Several distinct Hebrew and Greek words are thus rendered in
the English Bible. Of these the most common is 'oph, which is
usually a collective term for all kinds of birds. In 1Ki 4:23
among the daily provisions for Solomon's table "fatted fowl"
are included. In the New Testament the word translated "fowls"
is most frequently that which compre...
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Fowl. - This word which, in its most general sense, applies to anything that flies in the air (Genesis 1:20, 21), and which frequently occurs in the Bible with this meaning, is also sometimes used in a narrower sense, as, for instance, III K., iv, 23, where it stands for all fatted birds that may be reckoned among the delicacies of a king's table; ...
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