STORK — built directly on chesed, covenant loyalty and lovingkindness: the bird's own name means 'the pious one' or 'the kind one,' for how attentively storks are seen tending their young. Yet Torah's dietary law lists the chasidah among the UNCLEAN birds regardless (Leviticus 11:19, not yet on these pages) — its scavenging diet earning the label despite the name. At Zechariah 5:9 two women with stork-wings carry Wickedness out of the land, a bird whose own name and status disagree with each other doing the carrying. → first discussed at Zechariah 5:9