Bible Dictionary
Kid
A kid is a young goat commonly used as food and sacrifice. The law prohibited boiling a kid in its mother’s milk.
Definition
A kid is a young goat. It was commonly used as food and in sacrificial or culinary settings.
Biblical Usage
Kids were used as food and in offerings. The Mosaic law repeatedly prohibited cooking a kid in the milk of its mother.
Historical Background
Several Hebrew terms translated “kid” refer to young goats or goats generally. The prohibition against cooking a kid in its mother’s milk was understood in the supplied material as a safeguard against cruelty, unnatural practice, or association with idolatrous sacrifice.
Scripture References
Historical Bible Dictionaries
Easton's Bible Dictionary
The young of the goat. It was much used for food (Gen. 27:9; 38:17; Judg. 6:19; 14:6). The Mosaic law forbade to dress a kid in the milk of its dam, a law which is thrice repeated (Ex. 23:19; 34:26; Deut. 14:21). Among the various reasons assigned for this law, that appears to be the most satisfactory which regards it as “a protest against cruelty and outraging the order of nature.” A kid cooked in its mother’s milk is “a gross, unwholesome dish, and calculated to kindle animal and ferocious passions, and on this account Moses may have forbidden it. Besides, it is even yet associated with immoderate feasting; and originally, I suspect,” says Dr. Thomson (Land and the Book), “was connected with idolatrous sacrifices.”
Smith's Bible Dictionary
[Goat]
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE)
<p>(1) gedhi (Ex 23:19, etc.);</p><p>(2) feminine gedhiyah (Isa 11:6, etc.);</p><p>(3) gedhi `izzim, English Versions of the Bible "kid," literally, "kid of the goats," the King James Version margin (Jud 6:19, etc.);</p><p>(4) `ez, literally, "goat" (De 14:21; 1Ki 20:27);.</p><p>(5) se`ir `izzim, the King James Version "kid of the goats," the Revised Version (British and American) "he-goat" (Ge 37:31; Le 9:3, etc.);</p><p>(6) eriphos (Lu 15:29).</p><p>See GOAT.</p>