What Does Deuteronomy 14:13 Mean in the King James?
And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
This line names particular birds and their kinds, rather than treating “birds” as one undifferentiated whole.
THE MEANING
The line names the glede, kite, and vulture while preserving a distinction among their kinds. The list stays concrete: these are named forms, not a blur of “birds.”
THE ROOT
לְמִינָהּ
ləmināh
GROWS FROM
מין
Kind, species, or sort: a class of living things.
“after his kind” in this verse is ləmināh. The noun מִין (min) also appears in the creation account’s repeated “after its kind,” the same vocabulary for keeping living forms distinct. Here it makes the list specific to the named bird and its kind, rather than making “bird” one undifferentiated category.
ALSO GROWS
ləmināh: According to its kind; the feminine form used in this verse.
לְמִינָהּ
The phrase attaches the distinction to the named bird, keeping the category precise.
ləminēhû: According to its kind; a masculine form used in Genesis 1:25.
לְמִינֵהוּ
The same noun recurs in the creation account, linking this list to the Bible’s language for distinct living forms.
THE PATTERN
Scripture names living forms according to their distinct kinds instead of flattening them into one undifferentiated class.
And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.And the vulture, and the kite after his kind;All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.THE THREAD
And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.Genesis 1:25 uses the same noun מִין (min) in לְמִינֵהוּ (ləminēhû), “according to its kind.” Deuteronomy’s לְמִינָהּ (ləmināh) places its bird list in that same language of distinct living forms.
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