Literatuur

• - - , Algemeen, , Glenn Carnagey, Loyal Love; In its concrete earliest application as a noun, the He-brew word CHASIYD, means "stork". It used in the Bible as a reference to the intense and total loyalty of the stork to its offspring, especially that of the mother stork, hence the concept of Loyal Love.
  1. Moses listed the Stork as among the unclean birds not to be eaten by the Jews.
  2. There are two basic varieties of Storks:
     1. the Black Stork (Ciconia Nigra) and
     2. the White Stork (Ciconia Alba).
  3. They are noted both for their high flight and for their powerful wings (as used for an analogy with angel wings, Zech 5:9), and for their total devotion to their young.
  4. Although normally considered to be a Marsh Bird, storks nest in the trees for maximum safety, as in the Fir trees of Lebanon. Ps 104:17
  5. Their life cycle is rigidly regular, with a precise migration pattern to Northern Europe and back to the Middle East. Jer 8:7. They are definitely pluggers!!
  6. Because of their close family loyalty, these Birds became proverbial for exhibiting parental love and loy-alty, and thus they gave rise to the myth that storks de-liver human babies.
• Encyclopedie , Jewish Encyclopedia, , Emil G. Hirsch & I. M. Casanowicz, Stork Unclean bird (Lev. xi. 19; Deut. xiv. 18). The name (comp. Latin, "pia avis") alludes to the filial piety and devotion attributed by the ancients to the stork (comp. Aristotle, "Historia Animalium," ix. 14, 1). Both the white and black storks (Ciconia alba and Ciconia nigra) occur in Palestine: the former is a migrant, passing through in April (comp. Jer. viii. 7); the latter is especially abundant in the neighborhood of the Dead Sea.

  The Talmud considers "dayyah lebanah" to be the proper name of the stork, and "ḥasidah" to be an epithet applied to it because it lovingly shares its food with its fellows (Ḥul. 63a). The gall of the stork cures the bite of the scorpion (Ket. 50a; comp. Pliny, "Historia Naturalis," xxix. 5, 33).
  
  Bibliography: Tristram, Nat. Hist. p. 244;
  Lewysohn, Zoologie des Talmuds, p. 171.

• J.P. van de Giessen , Blog Aantekeningen bij de Bijbel, April 16, 2011,

  Video: De trek van de ooievaar

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