Topic
Owl, The
11 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 They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently.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.
- Leviticus 11:13Torrey Unclean and not to be eaten
¶ 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,
- Leviticus 11:16Torrey Varieties of
And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
- Leviticus 11:17Torrey Varieties of
And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl,
- Deuteronomy 14:15Torrey Varieties of
And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
- Deuteronomy 14:16Torrey Varieties of
The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,
- Psalms 102:6Torrey DESCRIBED AS — Solitary in disposition
I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
- Isaiah 13:21Torrey Inhabits deserted cities and houses
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 34:11–14Torrey Inhabits deserted cities and houses
¶ But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be…
- Isaiah 34:15Torrey DESCRIBED AS — Careful of its young
There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
- Jeremiah 50:39Torrey Inhabits deserted cities and houses
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.
- Micah 1:8Torrey DESCRIBED AS — Mournful in voice
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
Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897) · 13 references, grouped by sub-topic
Texts: Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.