The Owl
9 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
7 sections
Careful of Its Young
- 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.
Illustrative of Mourners
- Psalm 102:6 I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.
Inhabits Deserted Cities and Houses
- Isaiah 13:21 But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about.
- Isaiah 34:11–14 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. …
- Jeremiah 50:39 So the desert creatures and hyenas will live there and ostriches will dwell there. It will never again be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation.
Mournful in Voice
- Micah 1:8 Because of this I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and mourn like an ostrich.
Solitary in Disposition
- Psalm 102:6 I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.
Unclean and 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 11:16 the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,
Varieties of
- Leviticus 11:16–17 the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, …
- Deuteronomy 14:15–16 the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, …
Related topics
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.