Genesis 15:11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcasses Upon the birds, as Aben Ezra and Ben Melech interpret it, whose carcasses were whole; or...
FALCON fo'-k'-n, fol'-k'-n, fal'-kun: The Hebrews did not know the word. Their bird corresponding to our falcon, in all probability, was one of the s...
CAGE kaj (kelubh; phulake): The earliest known form of cage made to confine a bird, for the pleasure of its song or the beauty of its coloring, was a...
James 3:7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds Or the nature of them, as it is in the Greek text; however fierce, as beasts of prey are, or shy, as ...
GIN jin (moqesh, pach): A noose of hair or wire for snaring wild birds alive. There are over half a dozen traps and net devices indicated by differen...
BirdBirds are divided in the Mosaic law into two classes, (1) the clean ( Leviticus 1:14-17 ; 5:7-10 ; 14:4-7 ), which were offered in sacrifice; an...
Ossifrage [N] [E](the bone-breaker ). The Hebrew word occurs, as the name of an unclean bird, in ( Leviticus 11:13 ) and Deuteronomy 14:12 It is prob...
Overview - Psalms 84 1?The prophet, longing for the communion of the sanctuary, 4?shews how blessed they are that dwell therein. 8?He prays to be re...
Overview - Jeremiah 4 1?God calls Israel by his promise. 3?He exhorts Judah to repentance by fearful judgments. 19?A grievous lamentation for Judah. ...
WhithersoeverWherever.And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee WHITHERSOEVER thou goest. And Jesus saith unto him, The...
QUAIL kwal (selaw; ortugometra; Latin Coturnix vulgaris): A game bird of the family Coturnix, closely related to partridges (which see). Quail and pa...
Was not our heart burning? (Ouci h kardia emwn kaiomenh hn;). Periphrastic imperfect middle. Spake (elalei). Imperfect active, was speaking. This com...
Unto his stature (epi thn hlikian autou). The word hlikian is used either of height (stature) or length of life (age). Either makes good sense here, ...
Overview - Psalms 148 1?The psalmist exhorts the celestial, 7?the terrestrial, 11?and the rational creatures to praise God. Treasury of Scripture Kno...
CRANE kran (`aghur; geranos; Latin Grus cinerea): A bird of the family gruidae. The crane is mentioned twice in the Bible: once on account of its voi...
Ecclesiastes 9:12 For man also knoweth not his time Though it is fixed and settled by the Lord, yet times and seasons are kept in his own power, and n...
CUCKOW; CUCKOO kook'-oo, kuk'-oo (shachaph; laros; Latin Cuculus canorus): The Hebrew root from which the word shachaph is derived means to be lean a...
Psalms 104:12 By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, &c.] Another use of the springs, fountains, and rivers of water; by the sid...
Leviticus 14:49 And he shall take to cleanse the house The priest, or by his fellow priest, as Aben Ezra, though some interpret it of the master of th...
SWAN swon (tinshemeth, chameleon, tree-toad, water-hen, owl; kuknos; Latin cygnus; Anglo-Saxon: swan and swon): Mentioned only in old versions and th...