Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 11:15
Every raven after his kind;
Verse 15. Every raven] oreb, a general term comprehending the raven, crow, rook, jackdaw, and magpie.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
i.e. According to the several kinds of birds, known by this general name, which includes, besides ravens properly so called, crows, rooks, pies, &c.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
15. the ravenincluding thecrow, the pie.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Every raven after his kind. The red raven, night raven, the water raven, river raven, wood raven, c. this also includes crows, rooks, pies, jays, and jackdaws, c. The raven was with the Heathens sacred to Apollo o, is a voracious creature, and so reckoned among unclean ones, and unfit for food nor does the care that God takes of these creatures, or the use he has made of them, contradict this see
Job 38:41.
o Aelian. De Animal. l. 1. c. 48. & l. 7. c. 18.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
“ Every raven after his kind, ” i.e., the whole genus of ravens, with the rest of the raven-like birds, such as crows, jackdaws, and jays, which are all of them natives of Syria and Palestine. The omission of before , which is found in several MSS and editions, is probably to be regarded as the true reading, as it is not wanting before any of the other names.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
(15) And every raven.The raven or the black bird (Son. 5:11), the bird of the night, as its name denotes in Heb., like the eagle, occurs frequently in the Bible. It preys upon putrid corpses (Pro. 30:17), and is especially eager to pick out the eyes of the dead, and sometimes even attacks the eyes of the living. So great is its gluttony that it fills the air with its wild shrieks when searching for food (Psa. 147:9; Job. 38:41). Its rapacity makes the raven expel its own offspring from their nest and from the surrounding places as soon as they are able to fly, and before they are quite able to procure their own food. Indeed, the ancients believed that it forsook its young immediately after they were hatched. It was in consequence of their excessive greed and known aversion to part with anything, even for their own offspring, that the ravens were chosen to carry food to the prophet (1Ki. 17:4; 1Ki. 17:6), thus to make the miracle all the more striking. The phrase, every raven after his kind, clearly shows that the whole genus of ravens is intended, with all the raven-like birds, such as the rook, the crow, the jackdaw, the jay, &c, which abound in Syria and Palestine.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
15. Every raven This bird derives his name in Hebrew from his blackness. It is allied to the crow, which is after his kind, only smaller. It abides in solitary valleys. Pro 30:17. Since it feeds on carrion it is very unclean.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Lev 11:15 Every raven after his kind;
Ver. 15. Every raven. ] Unnatural to his young, whom God himself heareth and feedeth, Psa 147:9 though they cry with a harsh note, and cry to God by implication only; and though the raven be an inauspicate bird, and a sign both of man’s punishment and God’s curse. Isa 34:11
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
raven, or black birds of all kinds.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Gen 8:7, 1Ki 17:4, 1Ki 17:6, Pro 30:17, Luk 12:24