Birds
91 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
101 sections
- (Snaring) Death
- (Snaring) Designs of the Wicked
- Appointed for Food
- Cages of
- Called: Birds of the Air
- Called: Feathered Fowl
- Called: Fowls of Heaven
- Called: Fowls of the Air
- Called: Winged Fowl
- Can all be Tamed
- Clean: Cock and Hen
- Clean: Crane
- Clean: Dove
- Clean: Offered in Sacrifice
- Clean: Partridge
- Clean: Pigeon
- Clean: Quail
- Clean: Sparrow
- Clean: Swallow
- Clean: To be Eaten
- Clean: Turtle
- Confinement of, in Cages Alluded To
- Created by God
- Created for the Glory of God
- Creation of, on the Fifth Creative Day
- Differ in Flesh from Beasts and Fishes
- Divine Care of
- Domesticated
- Early Distinguished Into Clean and Clean
- Figurative
- Fly Above the Earth
- Furnished with Claws
- Given As Food to Man
- God Provides For
- Habits of
- Have Each Their Peculiar Note or Song
- Herb of the Field Given As Food To
- Inhabit: Deserted Cities
- Inhabit: Deserts
- Inhabit: Marshes
- Inhabit: Mountains
- Instinct of, Inferior to Man's Reason
- Instinctively Fear Man
- Instincts of
- Lessons of Wisdom to be Learned From
- Make Their Nests in Clefts of Rocks
- Make Their Nests in Deserted Cities
- Make Their Nests in Trees
- Make Their Nests: On the Ground
- Make Their Nests: Under the Roofs of Houses
- Make, and Dwell in Nests
- Man's Dominion Over
- Many Kinds of, Carnivorous
- Many Kinds of, Graniverous
- Many Kinds of, Migratory
- Migrate
- Moses' Law Protected the Mother from Being Taken with the Young
- Names Given To, by Adam
- Nests of
- No Likeness of, to be Made for Worship
- Not to be Eaten with Their Young
- Often Remove from Places Suffering Calamities
- Often Suffered for Man's Sin
- Often Worshipped by Idolaters
- Power Over Given to Man
- Propagated by Eggs
- Rapid Flight of, Alluded To
- Rest on Trees
- Solomon Wrote the History of
- Solomon's Proverbs of
- Songs of, at the Break of Day
- Symbolical
- Taken in Snares or Nets
- The Blood of, not to be Eaten
- The Property of God
- Unclean: Bat
- Unclean: Bittern
- Unclean: Cormorant
- Unclean: Cuckoo
- Unclean: Eagle
- Unclean: Gier Eagle
- Unclean: Glede
- Unclean: Great Owl
- Unclean: Hawk
- Unclean: Heron
- Unclean: Kite
- Unclean: Lapwing
- Unclean: Little Owl
- Unclean: Nighthawk
- Unclean: Not to be Eaten
- Unclean: Osprey
- Unclean: Ossifrage
- Unclean: Ostrich
- Unclean: Owl
- Unclean: Peacock
- Unclean: Pelican
- Unclean: Raven
- Unclean: Stork
- Unclean: Swan
- Unclean: Vulture
- What Species Were Unclean
(Snaring) Death
- Ecclesiastes 9:12 For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.
(Snaring) Designs of the Wicked
- Psalm 124:7 We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowler; the net is torn, and we have slipped away.
- Proverbs 1:10–17 My son, if sinners entice you, do not yield to them. …
- Proverbs 7:23 until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare— not knowing it will cost him his life.
Appointed for Food
- Genesis 9:2–3 The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are delivered into your hand. …
- Deuteronomy 14:11–20 You may eat any clean bird, …
Cages of
- Jeremiah 5:1 “Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem. Look now and take note; search her squares. If you can find a single person, anyone who acts justly, anyone who seeks the truth, then I will forgive the city.
- Jeremiah 27:1 At the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD.
- Revelation 18:2 And he cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons and a haunt for every unclean spirit, every unclean bird, and every detestable beast.
Called: Birds of the Air
- Matthew 8:20 Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.”
Called: Feathered Fowl
- Ezekiel 39:17 And as for you, son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says: Call out to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field: ‘Assemble and come together from all around to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great …
Called: Fowls of Heaven
- Job 35:11 who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
Called: Fowls of the Air
- Genesis 7:3 and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth.
Called: Winged Fowl
- Deuteronomy 4:17 of any beast that is on the earth or bird that flies in the air,
Can all be Tamed
- James 3:7 All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and creatures of the sea are being tamed and have been tamed by man,
Clean: Cock and Hen
- Matthew 23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!
- Matthew 26:34 “Truly I tell you,” Jesus declared, “this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.”
- Matthew 26:74 At that he began to curse and swear to them, “I do not know the man!” And immediately a rooster crowed.
Clean: Crane
- Isaiah 38:14 I chirp like a swallow or crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak as I look upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security.”
- Jeremiah 8:7 Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.
Clean: Dove
- Genesis 8:8 Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.
Clean: Offered in Sacrifice
- Genesis 8:20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.
- Leviticus 1:14 If, instead, one’s offering to the LORD is a burnt offering of birds, he is to present a turtledove or a young pigeon.
Clean: Partridge
- 1 Samuel 26:20 So do not let my blood fall to the ground far from the presence of the LORD. For the king of Israel has come out to look for a flea, like one who hunts a partridge in the mountains.”
- Jeremiah 17:11 Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.”
Clean: Pigeon
- Leviticus 1:14 If, instead, one’s offering to the LORD is a burnt offering of birds, he is to present a turtledove or a young pigeon.
- Leviticus 12:6 When the days of her purification are complete, whether for a son or for a daughter, she is to bring to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting a year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a turtledove for …
Clean: Quail
- Exodus 16:12–13 “I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them, ‘At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God.’” …
- Numbers 11:31–32 Now a wind sent by the LORD came up, drove in quail from the sea, and brought them near the camp, about two cubits above the surface of the ground, for a day’s journey in every direction around the camp. …
Clean: Sparrow
- Leviticus 14:4 the priest shall order that two live clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop be brought for the one to be cleansed.
- Matthew 10:29–31 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father. …
Clean: Swallow
- Psalm 84:3 Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she places her young near Your altars, O LORD of Hosts, my King and my God.
- Isaiah 38:14 I chirp like a swallow or crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak as I look upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security.”
Clean: To be Eaten
- Deuteronomy 14:11 You may eat any clean bird,
- Deuteronomy 14:20 But you may eat any clean bird.
Clean: Turtle
- Leviticus 14:22 and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, whichever he can afford, one to be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.
- Song of Solomon 2:12 The flowers have appeared in the countryside; the season of singing has come, and the cooing of turtledoves is heard in our land.
Confinement of, in Cages Alluded To
- Jeremiah 5:27 Like cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become powerful and rich.
Created by God
- Genesis 1:20–21 And God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.” …
- Genesis 2:19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
Created for the Glory of God
- Psalm 148:10 wild animals and all cattle, crawling creatures and flying birds,
Creation of, on the Fifth Creative Day
- Genesis 1:20–30 And God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.” …
Differ in Flesh from Beasts and Fishes
- 1 Corinthians 15:39 Not all flesh is the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another, and fish another.
Divine Care of
- Job 38:41 Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?
- Psalm 147:9 He provides food for the animals, and for the young ravens when they call.
- Matthew 10:29 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father.
- Luke 12:6 Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God.
- Luke 12:24 Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storehouse or barn; yet God feeds them. How much more valuable you are than the birds!
Domesticated
Early Distinguished Into Clean and Clean
- Genesis 8:20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Figurative
- Isaiah 16:2 Like fluttering birds pushed out of the nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon:
- Isaiah 46:11 I summon a bird of prey from the east, a man for My purpose from a far-off land. Truly I have spoken, and truly I will bring it to pass. I have planned it, and I will surely do it.
- Jeremiah 12:9 Is not My inheritance to Me like a speckled bird of prey with other birds of prey circling against her? Go, gather all the beasts of the field; bring them to devour her.
- Ezekiel 39:4 On the mountains of Israel you will fall — you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to every kind of ravenous bird and wild beast.
Fly Above the Earth
- Genesis 1:20 And God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”
Furnished with Claws
- Daniel 4:33 At that moment the sentence against Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled. He was driven away from mankind. He ate grass like an ox, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle and …
Given As Food to Man
- Genesis 9:2–3 The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are delivered into your hand. …
God Provides For
- Psalm 104:1–12 Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD my God, You are very great; You are clothed with splendor and majesty. …
- Matthew 6:26 Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
- Luke 12:23–24 For life is more than food, and the body more than clothes. …
Habits of
- Job 39:13–18 The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork. …
- Job 39:26–30 Does the hawk take flight by your understanding and spread his wings toward the south? …
Have Each Their Peculiar Note or Song
- Psalm 104:12 The birds of the air nest beside the springs; they sing among the branches.
- Ecclesiastes 12:4 when the doors to the street are shut and the sound of the mill fades away, when one rises at the sound of a bird and all the daughters of song grow faint,
- Song of Solomon 2:12 The flowers have appeared in the countryside; the season of singing has come, and the cooing of turtledoves is heard in our land.
Herb of the Field Given As Food To
- Genesis 1:30 And to every beast of the earth and every bird of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth — everything that has the breath of life in it — I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.
Inhabit: Deserted Cities
- Isaiah 34:11 The desert owl and screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and raven will dwell in it. The LORD will stretch out over Edom a measuring line of chaos and a plumb line of destruction.
- Isaiah 34:14–15 The desert creatures will meet with hyenas, and one wild goat will call to another. There the night creature will settle and find her place of repose. …
Inhabit: Deserts
- Psalm 102:6 I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.
Inhabit: Marshes
- Isaiah 14:23 “I will make her a place for owls and for swamplands; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
Inhabit: Mountains
- Psalm 50:11 I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are Mine.
Instinct of, Inferior to Man's Reason
- Job 35:11 who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
Instinctively Fear Man
- Genesis 9:2 The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are delivered into your hand.
Instincts of
- Proverbs 1:17 How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!
Lessons of Wisdom to be Learned From
- Job 12:7 But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you.
Make Their Nests in Clefts of Rocks
- Numbers 24:21 Next he saw the Kenites and lifted up an oracle, saying: “Your dwelling place is secure, and your nest is set in a cliff.
- Jeremiah 48:28 Abandon the towns and settle among the rocks, O dwellers of Moab! Be like a dove that nests at the mouth of a cave.
Make Their Nests in Deserted Cities
- Isaiah 34:15 There the owl will make her nest; she will lay and hatch her eggs and gather her brood under her shadow. Even there the birds of prey will gather, each with its mate.
Make Their Nests in Trees
- Psalm 104:17 where the birds build their nests; the stork makes her home in the cypresses.
- Ezekiel 31:6 All the birds of the air nested in its branches, and all the beasts of the field gave birth beneath its boughs; all the great nations lived in its shade.
Make Their Nests: On the Ground
- Deuteronomy 22:6 If you come across a bird’s nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, you must not take the mother along with the young.
Make Their Nests: Under the Roofs of Houses
- Psalm 84:3 Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she places her young near Your altars, O LORD of Hosts, my King and my God.
Make, and Dwell in Nests
- Matthew 8:20 Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.”
Man's Dominion Over
- Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”
- Genesis 1:28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”
- Genesis 9:2–3 The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are delivered into your hand. …
- Psalm 8:5–8 You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor. …
- Jeremiah 27:6 So now I have placed all these lands under the authority of My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. I have even made the beasts of the field subject to him.
- Daniel 2:38 Wherever the sons of men or beasts of the field or birds of the air dwell, He has given them into your hand and has made you ruler over them all. You are that head of gold.
- James 3:7 All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and creatures of the sea are being tamed and have been tamed by man,
Many Kinds of, Carnivorous
- Genesis 15:11 And the birds of prey descended on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
- Genesis 40:19 Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat the flesh of your body.”
- Deuteronomy 28:26 Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the air and beasts of the earth, with no one to scare them away.
Many Kinds of, Graniverous
- Matthew 13:4 And as he was sowing, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.
Many Kinds of, Migratory
- Jeremiah 8:7 Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.
Migrate
- Jeremiah 8:7 Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.
Moses' Law Protected the Mother from Being Taken with the Young
- Deuteronomy 22:6–7 If you come across a bird’s nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, you must not take the mother along with the young. …
Names Given To, by Adam
- Genesis 2:19–20 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. …
Nests of
- Psalm 104:17 where the birds build their nests; the stork makes her home in the cypresses.
- Matthew 8:20 Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.”
- Matthew 13:32 Although it is the smallest of all seeds, yet it grows into the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.”
No Likeness of, to be Made for Worship
- Deuteronomy 4:17 of any beast that is on the earth or bird that flies in the air,
Not to be Eaten with Their Young
- Deuteronomy 22:6–7 If you come across a bird’s nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, you must not take the mother along with the young. …
Often Remove from Places Suffering Calamities
- Jeremiah 4:25 I looked, and no man was left; all the birds of the air had fled.
- Jeremiah 9:10 I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts …
Often Suffered for Man's Sin
- Genesis 6:7 So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth — every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air — for I am grieved that I have made them.”
- Jeremiah 12:4 How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”
- Ezekiel 38:20 The fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, every creature that crawls upon the ground, and all mankind on the face of the earth will tremble at My presence. The mountains will be thrown down, the cliffs …
- Hosea 4:3 Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it will waste away with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air; even the fish of the sea disappear.
Often Worshipped by Idolaters
- Romans 1:23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
Power Over Given to Man
- Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”
- Psalm 8:8 the birds of the air and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.
Propagated by Eggs
- Deuteronomy 22:6 If you come across a bird’s nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, you must not take the mother along with the young.
- Jeremiah 17:11 Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.”
Rapid Flight of, Alluded To
- Isaiah 31:5 Like birds hovering overhead, so the LORD of Hosts will protect Jerusalem. He will shield it and deliver it; He will pass over it and preserve it.”
- Hosea 9:11 Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird, with no birth, no pregnancy, and no conception.
- Hosea 11:11 They will come trembling like birds from Egypt and like doves from the land of Assyria. Then I will settle them in their homes, declares the LORD.
Rest on Trees
- Daniel 4:12 Its leaves were beautiful, its fruit was abundant, and upon it was food for all. Under it the beasts of the field found shelter, in its branches the birds of the air nested, and from it every creature was fed.
- Matthew 13:32 Although it is the smallest of all seeds, yet it grows into the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.”
Solomon Wrote the History of
- 1 Kings 4:33 He spoke of trees, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop growing in the wall, and he taught about animals, birds, reptiles, and fish.
Solomon's Proverbs of
- 1 Kings 4:33 He spoke of trees, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop growing in the wall, and he taught about animals, birds, reptiles, and fish.
Songs of, at the Break of Day
- Psalm 104:12 The birds of the air nest beside the springs; they sing among the branches.
- Ecclesiastes 12:4 when the doors to the street are shut and the sound of the mill fades away, when one rises at the sound of a bird and all the daughters of song grow faint,
- Song of Solomon 2:12 The flowers have appeared in the countryside; the season of singing has come, and the cooing of turtledoves is heard in our land.
Symbolical
- Daniel 7:6 Next, as I watched, suddenly another beast appeared. It was like a leopard, and on its back it had four wings like those of a bird. The beast also had four heads, and it was given authority to rule.
Taken in Snares or Nets
- Proverbs 1:17 How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!
The Blood of, not to be Eaten
- Leviticus 7:26 You must not eat the blood of any bird or animal in any of your dwellings.
The Property of God
- Psalm 50:11 I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are Mine.
Unclean: Bat
- Leviticus 11:19 the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
- Isaiah 2:20 In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold — the idols they made to worship.
Unclean: Bittern
- Isaiah 14:23 “I will make her a place for owls and for swamplands; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
- Isaiah 34:11 The desert owl and screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and raven will dwell in it. The LORD will stretch out over Edom a measuring line of chaos and a plumb line of destruction.
Unclean: Cormorant
- Leviticus 11:17 the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl,
- Isaiah 34:11 The desert owl and screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and raven will dwell in it. The LORD will stretch out over Edom a measuring line of chaos and a plumb line of destruction.
Unclean: Cuckoo
- Leviticus 11:16 the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,
Unclean: Eagle
- Leviticus 11:13 Additionally, you are to detest the following birds, and they must not be eaten because they are detestable: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,
- Job 39:27 Does the eagle soar at your command and make his nest on high?
Unclean: Gier Eagle
- Leviticus 11:18 the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey,
Unclean: Glede
- Deuteronomy 14:13 the red kite, the falcon, any kind of kite,
Unclean: Great Owl
- Leviticus 11:17 the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl,
Unclean: Hawk
- Leviticus 11:17 the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl,
- Job 39:26 Does the hawk take flight by your understanding and spread his wings toward the south?
Unclean: Heron
- Leviticus 11:19 the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
Unclean: Kite
- Leviticus 11:14 the kite, any kind of falcon,
Unclean: Lapwing
- Leviticus 11:19 the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
Unclean: Little Owl
- Leviticus 11:17 the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl,
Unclean: Nighthawk
- Leviticus 11:16 the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,
Unclean: Not to be Eaten
- Leviticus 11:13 Additionally, you are to detest the following birds, and they must not be eaten because they are detestable: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,
- Leviticus 11:17 the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl,
- Deuteronomy 14:12 but these you may not eat: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,
Unclean: Osprey
- Leviticus 11:13 Additionally, you are to detest the following birds, and they must not be eaten because they are detestable: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,
Unclean: Ossifrage
- Leviticus 11:13 Additionally, you are to detest the following birds, and they must not be eaten because they are detestable: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,
Unclean: Ostrich
Unclean: Owl
- Leviticus 11:16 the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,
- Job 30:29 I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.
Unclean: Peacock
- 1 Kings 10:22 For the king had the ships of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
- Job 39:13 The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork.
Unclean: Pelican
- Leviticus 11:18 the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey,
- Psalm 102:6 I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.
Unclean: Raven
- Leviticus 11:15 any kind of raven,
- Job 38:41 Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?
Unclean: Stork
- Leviticus 11:19 the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
- Psalm 104:17 where the birds build their nests; the stork makes her home in the cypresses.
Unclean: Swan
- Leviticus 11:18 the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey,
Unclean: Vulture
- Leviticus 11:14 the kite, any kind of falcon,
- Job 28:7 No bird of prey knows that path; no falcon’s eye has seen it.
- Isaiah 34:15 There the owl will make her nest; she will lay and hatch her eggs and gather her brood under her shadow. Even there the birds of prey will gather, each with its mate.
What Species Were Unclean
- Leviticus 11:13–20 Additionally, you are to detest the following birds, and they must not be eaten because they are detestable: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture, …
- Deuteronomy 14:12–19 but these you may not eat: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture, …
Related topics
Birds of People of Different CountriesBirds of the Devil and his SpiritsBirds of Unsettled PersonBirds are Hostile to Strange KindsBirds of Cruel and Rapacious KingsBirds of Hostile Nations
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.