Hare/drunk
Hare/drunk
Le 11:6 And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he [is] unclean unto you.
The hare is called out by the rules above, he is not a clean animal since he does not have a separated hoof, indicating that he meditates but has no changed life. It also had hidden meanings, like the other animals, based on the behaviors Adam observed.
- When you look at a warren of rabbits, it sometimes looks like popcorn; rabbits bouncing all over. Sometimes they jump because the are afraid or in a fight, sometimes because they are playing. Adam didn't have a word for popcorn, so he called the warren a 'house of divided jubilation'. I'm not certain, but it may be because they looked like they were celebrating or partying everything. I am penciling in that the rabbit represents the drunk, since Paul tells us that our leaders should not be drunkards. [1]
- hare ‘arnebeth ארנבת - house בת of divided א jubilation רנ. If you celebrate good and bad things, it is a sign of poor judgement.
Skeptics love to point out that rabbits do not technically chew the cud. They actually pass their food through a second time by eating their night droppings; they re-ingest. But the Bible does not say they chew the cud, but that they chew the gerah גרה which means 'pursue ג the revelation ר which was not understood ה'. The word means to pass through again to get more out of it, not to regurgitate. Some chew the gerah by regurgitation and some by re-ingestion. The rabbit or hare re-ingests.
Strong's concordance and Gill's commentary, because they are apparently intimidated by 'science', make excuses for apparent differences with scientific claims without investigating what the Bible actually says. They say the arnebeth or hare must be an extinct species because they don't know how to interpret gerah, and yet they want to hold on to their beliefs the Bible is infallible. When we understand what is actually said, we see there is no contradiction.