Hares
har ('arnebheth (Lev 11:6; Dt 14:7); compare Arabic 'arnab,
"hare"): This animal is mentioned only in the lists of
unclean animals in Leviticus and Deuteronomy, Where it
occurs along with the camel, the coney and the swine. The
camel, the hare and the coney are unclean, `because they
chew the cud but part not the hoof,' the swine, "because he ...
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-Forbidden as food
Le 11:6; De 14:7...
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(Heb. arnebeth) occurs only in Le 11:6 and Deut 14:7
amongst the animals disallowed as food by the Mosaic
law. The hare is at this day called arnel by the Arabs in
Israel and Syria. It was erroneously thought by the ancient
Jews to have chewed the cud. They were no doubt misled as in
the case of the shaphfan (hyrax), by the habit these animals...
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(Heb. 'arnebeth) was prohibited as food according to the
Mosaic
law (Lev. 11:6; Deut. 14:7), "because he cheweth the
cud, but
divideth not the hoof." The habit of this animal is
to grind its
teeth and move its jaw as if it actually chewed the
cud. But,
like the cony (q.v.), it is not a ruminant with four
stomachs,
but a rodent like the sq...
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arnebeth Reckoned unclean on the ground that it "chews the
cud, but divideth not the hoof" (Leviticus 11:6; Deuteronomy
14:7). It brings up from the (esophagus and chews again its
food; but there is no genuine rumination, neither it nor the
hyrax ("coney") or shaaphan have the special stomach of the
ruminants. Rodent animals, as the hare and t...
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Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud,
or of them that divide the cloven hoof; [as] the camel, and
the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not
the hoof; [therefore] they [are] unclean unto you....
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And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the
hoof; he [is] unclean unto you....
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Hare. - Mentioned Lev., xi, 6; Deut., xiv, 7, in the list of the unclean quadrupeds. Several subspecies of the European Hare and the Cape Hare live in Israel: Lepus europaeus syriacus in the north; Lepus europaeus judeae in the south and the Jordan valley, together with Lepus capensis sinaiticus, Lepus capensis aegyptius and Lepus capensis isabelli...
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