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Leviticus 11:7

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The pig is unclean to you because its hoof is divided (the hoof is completely split in two 1 ), even though it does not chew the cud. 2 

XREF

De 14:8; Isa 65:4; Isa 66:3,17; Mt 7:6; Lu 8:33; Lu 15:15; 2Pe 2:18-22

NET © Notes

tn See the note on Lev 11:3.

tn The meaning and basic rendering of this clause is quite certain, but the verb for “chewing” the cud here is not the same as the preceding verses, where the expression is “to bring up the cud” (see the note on v. 3 above). It appears to be a cognate verb for the noun “cud” (גֵּרָה, gerah) and could mean either “to drag up” (i.e., from the Hebrew Qal of גָרָר [garar] meaning “to drag,” referring to the dragging the cud up and down between the stomach and mouth of the ruminant animal; so J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:647, 653) or “to chew” (i.e., from the Hebrew Niphal [or Qal B] of גָרָר used in a reciprocal sense; so J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 149, and compare BDB 176 s.v. גָרַר, “to chew,” with HALOT 204 s.v. גרר qal.B, “to ruminate”).



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