Bird

Birds are divided in the Mosaic law into two classes…

1. the clean (Lev. 1:14-17; 5:7-10; 14:4-7), which were offered in sacrifice; and…

2. the unclean (Lev. 11:13-20). When offered in sacrifice, they were not divided as other victims were (Gen. 15:10). They are mentioned also as an article of food (Deut. 14:11).

The art of snaring wild birds is referred to (Ps. 124:7; Prov. 1:17; 7:23; Jer. 5:27).

Singing birds are mentioned in Ps. 104:12; Eccl. 12:4.

Their timidity is alluded to (Hos. 11:11).

The reference in Ps. 84:3 to the swallow and the sparrow may be only a comparison equivalent to, “What her house is to the sparrow, and her nest to the swallow, that thine altars are to my soul.”

ALSO SEE:

• Bittern
• Burnt Offering
• Cormorant
• Crane
• Cuckoo
• Doleful Creatures
• Dove
• Dukiphath
• Eagle
• Egg
• Gier Eagle
• Hawk
• Hen
• Heron
• Hoope
• Kite
• Lapwing
• Night-hawk
• Ochim
• Osprey
• Ossifrage
• Ostrich
• Owl
• Partridge
• Peacock
• Peewit
• Pelicans
• Pigeon
• Quails
• Raven
• Sparrow
• Stork
• Swallow
• Swan
• Turtle (Turtle-dove)
• Vulture
• Animals of the Bible