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Title: A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Smith, William, 1813-1893 Barnum, Samuel W. (Samuel Weed), 1820-1891, ed
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Publisher: New York, London, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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red occursin three passages (Lev. xi. 14; Deut. xiv. 13;Job xxviii. 7): in the two former it is translated 1 kite in the A. V., in the latter vulture. It isenumerated among the twenty names of birds men-tioned in Deut. xiv. (birds of prey belonging for themost part to the order of Raplores) which were con-sidered unclean by the Mosaic Law, and forbiddento be used as food by the Israelites. The allusionin Job alone affords a clew to its identification.The deep mines in the recesses of the mountainsfrom which the labor of man extracts the treasures KIT KNO 525 of the earth are there described (so Mr. Wright) asa track which the bird of prey hath not known,nor hath the eye of the ayyah looked upon it.Among all birds of prey, which are proverbiallyclear-sighted, the ayyah is thus distinguished aspossessed of peculiar keenness of vision, and bythis attribute alone is it marked. Translators havebeen singularly at variance with regard to thisbird. Robertson (Clavis Pailatcuchi) derives ayyah
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Kite (Hihus ict from an obsolete root, which he connects with anArabic word, the primary meaning of which, ac-cording to Schultens, is to turn. If this derivationbe the true one, kite may be the correct ren-dering. The habit which birds of this genus haveof sailing in circles, with the rudder-like tail byits inclination governing the curve, as Yarrellsays, accords with the Arabic derivation. In or-nithological language kite = glede (Milvusvulgaris); but the A. V. translators considered theterms distinct. Bochart identifies the ayyd.li withthe merlin (Falco JEsalon, Linn.), the smallest of theBritish hawks. But the grounds for identifying itwith any individual species are too slight to enableus to regard with confidence- any conclusions basedupon them ; and from the expression which fol-lows in Leviticus and Deuteronomy, after itskind, it is evident that the term is generic. Kithlisli (fr. Heb., probably = a mans wall,Ges.; separation, Fii.), a city of Judah, in the low-land (Josh. xv.

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