kid Summary and Overview
Bible Dictionaries at a Glance
kid in Easton's Bible Dictionary
the young of the goat. It was much used for food (Gen. 27:9; 38:17; Judg. 6:19; 14:6). The Mosaic law forbade to dress a kid in the milk of its dam, a law which is thrice repeated (Ex. 23:19; 34:26; Deut. 14:21). Among the various reasons assigned for this law, that appears to be the most satisfactory which regards it as "a protest against cruelty and outraging the order of nature." A kid cooked in its mother's milk is "a gross, unwholesome dish, and calculated to kindle animal and ferocious passions, and on this account Moses may have forbidden it. Besides, it is even yet associated with immoderate feasting; and originally, I suspect," says Dr. Thomson (Land and the Book), "was connected with idolatrous sacrifices."
kid in Smith's Bible Dictionary
[GOAT]
kid in Schaff's Bible Dictionary
KID , Jud 14:6, or the young of the goat, was among the luxuries of the ancients, Gen 38:17; Jud 6:19; 1 Sam 16:20, and is now esteemed a great delicacy by Eastern nations. Kids were among the sacrificial offerings. Num 7:11-87.
kid in Fausset's Bible Dictionary
(See FOOD ), on the prohibition to "seethe" or boil it in its "mother's milk": Deuteronomy 14:21).