Topic
Bird
14 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1897 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 15:10Easton
And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.
- Leviticus 1:14–17Easton
¶ And if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the LORD be of fowls, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves, or of young pigeons. And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring off his head, and burn it on the altar; and the blood…
- Leviticus 5:7–10Easton
And if he be not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for his trespass, which he hath committed, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, unto the LORD; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering. And he shall bring them unto the priest,…
- Leviticus 11:13–20Easton
¶ And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, And the vulture, and the kite after his kind; Every raven after his kind; And the owl,…
- Leviticus 14:4–7Easton
Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop: And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water: As for the living…
- Deuteronomy 14:11Easton
¶ Of all clean birds ye shall eat.
- Psalms 84:3Easton
Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.
- Psalms 104:12Easton
By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches.
- Psalms 124:7Easton
Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
- Proverbs 1:17Easton
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
- Proverbs 7:23Easton
Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
- Ecclesiastes 12:4Easton
And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;
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- Jeremiah 5:27 Easton
- Hosea 11:11 Easton
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 14 references
Birds are divided in the Mosaic law into two classes, (1) the clean (Lev. 1:14-17; 5:7-10; 14:4-7), which were offered in sacrifice; and (2) the unclean (Lev. 11:13-20). When offered in sacrifice, they were not divided as other victims were (Gen. 15:10). They are mentioned also as an article of food (Deut. 14:11). The art of snaring wild birds is referred to (Ps. 124:7; Prov. 1:17; 7:23; Jer. 5:27). Singing birds are mentioned in Ps. 104:12; Eccl. 12:4. Their timidity is alluded to (Hos. 11:11). The reference in Ps. 84:3 to the swallow and the sparrow may be only a comparison equivalent to, “What her house is to the sparrow, and her nest to the swallow, that thine altars are to my soul.”
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.