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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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w of Moses to be eaten by the Israelites. Commentators generally agree with the LXX. and Vulgate that the Hoopoe is the bird intended. According to Bochart, these four different interpretations have been assigned to duci-phath: — 1. The Sadducees supposed the bird in-tsnded to be the common hen, which they therefore refused to eat. 2. Another interpretation understands the cock of the woods (Tetrao Urogallus). 3. Other interpreters think the altagen (?) is meant. 4. The last interpretation is the Hoopoe. Many, and curious in some instances, are the derivations proposed for the Hebrew word, but the most probable one is the mountain-cock. It must, however, be remarked that the observations of the habits of the hoopoe recorded by modern zoologists do not appear to warrant the assertion that it is so pre-eminently a mountain-bird as has been implied above. Marshy ground, ploughed land, wooded districts, such as are near to water, are more especially its favorite haunts. The hoopoe was accounted
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The Hoopoe (Upupa epops—(Fbn.) an unclean bird by the Mosaic law, nor is it now eaten except occasionally in those countries where it is abundantly found—Egypt, France, Spain, &c,&c. It seems to have been always regarded, both by Arabians and Greeks, with superstitious reverence. It is nearly as large as a pigeon. Its crest is very elegant, the long feathers forming it are each of them tipped with black.La-sea (fr. Gr. Lasaia; also written La-stca LAS LAV 533 (-seeah)) (Acts xxvii. 8). A few years ago it would have been impossible to give any information regarding this Cretan city, except indeed that it probably — the Lisia mentioned in the Peulinger Table as sixteen miles E. of Gorttna. But in January, 1856, a yachting party made inquiries at Fair Havens, and were told that the name Lasea was still given to some ruins a few miles E. A short search sufficed to discover these ruins, and independent testimony confirmed the name. Lasha (fr. Heb. = chink, fissure, Ges.), a placeno

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