How many legs a flying insect has?

[tonychanyt]

Leviticus 11:23

But all other flying insects that have four legs you are to regard as unclean.

Anyone can see that flying insects have 6 legs. Gill explained this way:

most creeping things that fly have six feet, as the locusts themselves, reckoning their leaping legs into the number; though it may be observed, that those creatures that have six feet have but four equal ones, on which they walk or creep; and the two foremost, which are longer, are as hands to them to wipe their eyes with, and protect them from anything that may fall into them and hurt them.

At the time of Moses, people were not as technically correct as people today.

 

[HTacianas]

Leviticus 11:23


Anyone can see that flying insects have 6 legs. Gill explained this way:


At the time of Moses, people were not as technically correct as people today.

The meaning of it is not really the number of legs, but how the creature moves. The number "four" represents something that walks on "all fours" rather than upright. So it goes "insects that walk on all fours".