Leviticus 11:17
The screech owl, and the cormorant, and the ibis,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- bubonem, et mergulum, et ibin,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ νυκτικόρακα καὶ καταράκτην καὶ εἶβιν
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְאֶת הַכּ֥וֹס וְאֶת הַשָּׁלָ֖ךְ וְאֶת הַיַּנְשֽׁוּף
Haydock's commentary
Owl, or the onocrotalus, which makes a hideous noise like an assibis, a bird adored in Egypt. Bochart takes the Hebrew to mean an owl, as well as the following term, swan, (Calmet) which is not probable.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.