What Does Deuteronomy 14:15 Mean in the King James?
And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk 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
The Hebrew’s closing phrase marks the hawk as its own kind, preserving its distinctness within the list.
THE MEANING
You meet a list of birds whose identities remain distinct, and the closing phrase marks the hawk according to its kind. The verse lets a shared boundary gather the list without erasing the particular creature within it.
THE ROOT
לְמִינֵהוּ
leminēhu
GROWS FROM
מין
Kind, type, or species.
“after his kind” in this verse is leminēhu. Here min names a kind, and the phrase attaches that kind to the hawk itself. The same phrase appears in the creation account for winged birds, linking this list to a wider pattern of creatures remaining distinct within their kinds.
ALSO GROWS
leminēhu: According to its kind.
לְמִינֵהוּ
This form appears here and in Genesis 1:21, marking the hawk and winged birds by their own kind.
lemināh: According to its kind.
לְמִינָהּ
Genesis 1:25 uses this form for the beast and cattle, carrying the same distinction across different creatures.
THE PATTERN
Living creatures are grouped without being collapsed into sameness.
And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.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.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 created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.Both verses use the Hebrew phrase leminēhu, “according to its kind.” Deuteronomy applies it to the hawk within its list; Genesis uses it for winged birds within the ordering of creation.
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