Topic
Ostriches
10 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1896 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 They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently.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.
- Leviticus 11:16Nave In A. V. the word “owl” occurs, but in the R. V., it is the word “ostrich,”
And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
- Deuteronomy 14:15Nave In A. V. the word “owl” occurs, but in the R. V., it is the word “ostrich,”
And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
- Job 30:29Nave In A. V. the word “owl” occurs, but in the R. V., it is the word “ostrich,”
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
- Job 39:13–18Nave General scriptures concerning
Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust, And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them. She is hardened…
- Isaiah 13:21Nave General scriptures concerning
But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
- Isaiah 34:13Nave General scriptures concerning
And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
- Isaiah 43:20Nave General scriptures concerning
The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.
- Jeremiah 50:39Nave In A. V. the word “owl” occurs, but in the R. V., it is the word “ostrich,”
Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
- Lamentations 4:3Nave General scriptures concerning
Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
- Micah 1:8Nave The cry of
Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.
In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 12 references, grouped by sub-topic
Texts: Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.