FOBO - Bible Animals (page 2/2)

Frontispiece: The Ostrich.

“What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider”—Job xxxix. 18. [more...] [$]

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The Eagle.

“Though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle.”—Jer. xiix. 16. [more...] [$]

The Owl

“I am a companion to owls.”—Job 30:29. [more...] [$]

The Bittern

“I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools for water” – Isa. xiv. 29.

In the account of the hedgehog, page 120, it has been mentioned that the Hebrew word Kippod, which has been rendered in the Authorized Version [of the Bible, published in 1611] as “Bittern,” is in all probability the Syrian hedgehog, and that the Jewish Bible accepts that rendering without even affixing the mark of doubt to the word. As, however, some writers on the subject still adhere to the more familiar rendering, a short account will be given of the Bittern (Botauris stellaris). (p. 532)

My New English Bible has ‘Bustard’ in Isaiah xiv 23, the passage cited in the text (and incorrectly given as verse 29 in the caption). It makes more sense to me to [more...] [$]

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