Topic
Reptiles
31 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 They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently.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 1:24Torrey Created by God
¶ And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
- Genesis 1:25Torrey Created by God
And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:26Torrey Placed under the dominion of man
¶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
- Exodus 8:2Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Frog
And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:
- Leviticus 11:29Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Tortoise
¶ These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind,
- Leviticus 11:30Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Chameleon
And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.
- Leviticus 11:31Torrey Unclean and not eaten
These are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even.
- Leviticus 11:40–43Torrey Unclean and not eaten
And he that eateth of the carcase of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: he also that beareth the carcase of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even. And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth shall be an…
- Deuteronomy 4:16Torrey No image of similitude of, to be made for worshipping
Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
- Deuteronomy 4:18Torrey No image of similitude of, to be made for worshipping
The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
- Deuteronomy 8:15Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Scorpion
Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;
- Deuteronomy 32:33Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Dragon
Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
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- 1 Kings 4:33 Torrey Solomon wrote a history of
- Job 26:13 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Serpent
- Job 30:29 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Dragon
- Psalms 58:4 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Adder or Asp
- Psalms 58:8 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Snail
- Psalms 91:13 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Adder or Asp
- Psalms 148:10 Torrey Made for praise and glory of God
- Proverbs 23:32 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Adder or Asp
- Proverbs 30:15 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Horseleech
- Isaiah 11:8 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Cockatrice or basilisk
- Isaiah 30:6 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Flying fiery serpent
- Isaiah 59:5 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Cockatrice or basilisk
- Jeremiah 9:11 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Dragon
- Ezekiel 8:10 Torrey Jews condemned for worshipping
- Matthew 7:10 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Serpent
- Acts 10:11–14 Torrey Unclean and not eaten
- Acts 28:3 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Viper
- Romans 1:23 Torrey Worshipped by Gentiles
- Revelation 16:13 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Frog
In the topical indexes
Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897) · 34 references, grouped by sub-topic
- Created by God Ge 1:24,25
- Made for praise and glory of God Ps 148:10
- Placed under the dominion of man Ge 1:26
- Unclean and not eaten Le 11:31,40-43; Ac 10:11-14
- MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE
- Chameleon Le 11:30
- Lizard Le 11:30
- Tortoise Le 11:29
- Snail Le 11:30; Ps 58:8
- Frog Ex 8:2; Re 16:13
- Horseleech Pr 30:15
- Scorpion De 8:15
- Serpent Job 26:13; Mt 7:10
- Flying fiery serpent De 8:15; Isa 30:6
- Dragon De 32:33; Job 30:29; Jer 9:11
- Viper Ac 28:3
- Adder or Asp Ps 58:4; 91:13; Pr 23:32
- Cockatrice or basilisk Isa 11:8; 59:5
- Solomon wrote a history of 1Ki 4:33
- Worshipped by Gentiles Ro 1:23
- No image of similitude of, to be made for worshipping De 4:16,18
- Jews condemned for worshipping Eze 8:10
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.