A Warning against Idolatry
Deuteronomy 4:17
In 11 translations
- BSB
- of any beast that is on the earth or bird that flies in the air,
- KJV
- The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
- WEB
- the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,
- ASV
- the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flieth in the heavens,
- LSV
- a form of any beast which [is] in the earth, a form of any winged bird which flies in the heavens,
- YLT
- a form of any beast which [is] in the earth — a form of any winged bird which flieth in the heavens —
- DBY
- the pattern of any beast that is on the earth, the pattern of any winged fowl that flieth in the heaven,
- DRC
- The similitude of any beasts, that are upon the earth, or of birds, that fly under heaven,
- GNV
- The likenes of any beast that is on earth, or the likenesse of any fethered foule that flieth in the aire:
- JPS
- the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the heaven,
- LXXE
- the likeness of any beast of those that are on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird which flies under heaven,
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- תַּבְנִ֕ית כָּל־בְּהֵמָ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר בָּאָ֑רֶץ תַּבְנִית֙ כָּל־צִפּ֣וֹר כָּנָ֔ף אֲשֶׁ֥ר תָּע֖וּף בַּשָּׁמָֽיִם׃
- LXX-Br
- ὁμοίωμα παντὸς κτήνους τῶν ὄντων ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, ὁμοίωμα παντὸς ὀρνέου πτερωτοῦ ὃ πέταται ὑπὸ τὸν οὐρανὸν,
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
IdolatryBezerFowlIdolHard; Hardiness; Harddiness; HardlyBeastsLaw in the Old TestamentBirdsMosesObedience
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Romans 1:23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).