Is bat a kind of bird?

[tonychanyt]

Leviticus 11:

13 These are the birds you are to regard as unclean and not eat because they are unclean: the eagle, a the vulture, the black vulture, ...
19 the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat.

In those days, the Israelites thought that a bat is a kind of bird. According to modern taxonomy, it is not. A peanut is not a nut either

 

[HTacianas]

Leviticus 11:


In those days, the Israelites thought that a bat is a kind of bird. According to modern taxonomy, it is not. A peanut is not a nut either

A bat is a "flying creature". The KJV translates it as bird.