Animals in the Bible

species of bird

New Testament parable

title for Jesus

species of mammal

idol worshipped by the Israelites in the Book of Exodus and the First Book of Kings

thumb|upright=1.35|Scapegoat ceremony depicted at [[Lincoln Cathedral in stained glass: "[Aaron] is to take the two goats and present them before the Lord at the entrance to the tent of meeting. He is to cast lots for the two goats—one lot for the Lord and the other for the scapegoat. Aaron shall bring the goat whose lot falls to the Lord and sacrifice it for a sin offering. But the goat chosen by lot as the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the Lord to be used for making atonement by sending it into the wilderness as a scapegoat." (NIV, Leviticus 16:7–10)]]

thumb|Behemoth as depicted in the Dictionnaire Infernal by Collin de Plancy Behemoth (; , bəhēmōṯ) is a beast from the biblical Book of Job, and is a form of the primeval chaos-monster created by God at the beginning of creation. Metaphorically, the name has come to be used for any extremely large or powerful entity.

thumb|"And Aaron shall cast lots over the two goats, one lot for the LORD and the other lot for Azazel." Lincoln Cathedral thumb|The Scapegoat (painting)|The Scapegoat, by [[William Holman Hunt, 1854]] thumb|Illustration of Azazel in Dictionnaire infernal by Collin de Plancy (1863) In the Hebrew Bible, the name Azazel (; ʿĂzāʾzēl) represents a desolate place where a scapegoat bearing the sins of the Jews was sent during Yom Kippur. During the late Second Temple period (after the closure of the Hebrew Bible canon), Azazel came to be viewed as a fallen angel responsible for introducing humans to

parable in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, about a man who leaves 99 sheep to find one lost sheep

miracles attributed to Jesus in the Bible

symbol of Mark the Evangelist

animal whose handling and/or consumption is considered taboo in a given religion

two miracles of Jesus

parable of Jesus: “the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind: Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away.” (Mt 13:47–48)

event before the Passion of the Christ

Red cow; specifically used in Jewish ritual

miracle of Jesus Christ

Pronouncement of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew

a miracle of Christ

serpents in biblical narrative

Nephesh (), also spelled nefesh, is a term in the Hebrew Bible used to refer to the aspects of sentience, and human beings and other animals are both described as being nephesh. Not all living organisms are referred to as "nefesh": arthropods ("bugs") and plants, for example, are not described in the Hebrew Bible as nephesh. The English corresponding term to nephesh is the Christian term "soul," which has very similar connotations, and is customarily used to translate it.

bible verse from the book of Matthew

Biblical demon or monster

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Steed of the Messiah at the end of days

in the Bible, a riddle that Samson posed to his Philistine wedding guests: “Out of the eater, something to eat; out of the strong, something sweet”, about a beehive in a lion carcass

artistic theme