Birds of the Bible. From 'Bible animals'.Longmans, Green and Company, 1887 - 235 pages |
Common terms and phrases
allusion animal Arabs Authorized Version beak Bittern Black Kite Book of Job Chasidah cloth extra colour cormorant Crane creatures Crown 8vo Cuckoo curious desert Deut eagle eggs Egyptian Vulture employed England evident falcons familiar feathers feeding fish flesh flight fowls Gallinule gilt edges Griffon Vulture ground habits Harier HARTWIG'S Dr Hawk Hebrew word Heron Hoopoe Ibis inhabit insects Israelites Jewish Bible Jews Kestrel Kite Lämmergeier LANNER FALCON Little Owl Lord mark of doubt mentioned metaphor mode neck nest occurs ossifrage Ostrich Palestine Partridge passage Peacock Pelican Peregrine Falcon pigeon plentiful in Palestine plumage present day prey probably Quail Raven rendered rock Rock Dove sacred writer scarcely Scriptures seen Selâv signifies similar smaller birds snare Sparrow species spot Spotted Cuckoo Stork swallow Swift tion translated trees Tristram tzippor wings WOOD'S Rev young
Popular passages
Page 115 - Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
Page 126 - O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not...
Page 25 - He found him in a desert land, And in the waste howling wilderness; He led him about, he instructed him, * He kept him as the apple of his eye.
Page 95 - Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? And one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Page 138 - And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.
Page 80 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.
Page 98 - HOW amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
Page 98 - 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.
Page 125 - If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone ? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent ? or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion ? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him ? " And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb.
Page 99 - For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.