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Kite in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

kit ('ayyah; iktinos; Latin Milvus ictinus or regalis): A medium-sized member of the hawk tribe (see HAWK). This bird is 27 inches long, of bright reddish-brown color, has sharply pointed wings and deeply forked tail. It is supposed to have exceptionally piercing eyes. It takes moles, mice, young game birds, snakes and frogs, as well as carrio...

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Leopard in Naves Topical Bible

-A carnivorous animal So 4:8 -Fierceness of Jer 5:6; 13:23; Ho 13:7; Hab 1:8 -FIGURATIVE Da 7:6 Taming of, the triumph of the gospel Isa 11:6...

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Leviathan in Naves Topical Bible

-Possibly a crocodile Job 41; Ps 104:26 -"The crooked (R. V.) serpent." Isa 27:1 -FIGURATIVE Ps 74:14...

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Goat Scripture - Leviticus 16:15

Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that [is] for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:...

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Hart in Naves Topical Bible

-See DEER...

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Hen in Naves Topical Bible

-FIGURATIVE Mt 23:37; Lu 13:34...

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Goat Scripture - Numbers 29:22

And one goat [for] a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering....

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Hare in Naves Topical Bible

-Forbidden as food Le 11:6; De 14:7...

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Hart in Smiths Bible Dictionary

the male stag. The word denotes some member of the deer tribe either the fallow deer or the Barbary deer. The hart is reckoned among the clean animals, De 12:15; 14:5; 15:22 and seems from the passages quoted, as well as from 1Ki 4:23 to have been commonly killed for food....

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Hare in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

har ('arnebheth (Lev 11:6; Dt 14:7); compare Arabic 'arnab, "hare"): This animal is mentioned only in the lists of unclean animals in Leviticus and Deuteronomy, Where it occurs along with the camel, the coney and the swine. The camel, the hare and the coney are unclean, `because they chew the cud but part not the hoof,' the swine, "because he ...

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