Dog
an animal frequently mentioned in Scripture. It was used by
the hebrews as a watch for their houses, Isa 56:10 and for
guarding their flocks. Job 30:1 Then also, as now troops of
hungry and semi-wild dogs used to wander about the fields and
the streets of the cities, devouring dead bodies and other
offal, 1Ki 14:11; 21:19,23; 22:38; Ps 59:6 an...
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frequently mentioned both in the Old and New Testaments.
Dogs
were used by the Hebrews as a watch for their houses
(Isa.
56:10), and for guarding their flocks (Job 30:1).
There were
also then as now troops of semi-wild dogs that
wandered about
devouring dead bodies and the offal of the streets
(1 Kings
14:11; 16:4; 21:19, 23; 22:38; Ps. 5...
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The watch of the house, and of the flock (Isaiah 56:10-11;
Job 30:1). Sometimes domesticated, as the Syrophoenician
woman's comparison and argument imply, "the household
(kunaria, 'little' or 'pet') dogs eat of the crumbs (Matthew
15:26-27; Mark 7:27-28) which fall from their master's
table." More commonly ownerless, and banded in troops which...
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Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the
concision....
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And [one] washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the
dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour;
according unto the word of the LORD which he spake....
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Him that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat; and
him that dieth of his in the fields shall the fowls of the air
eat....
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kelebh; (compare Arabic kelb, "dog"); kuon; and diminutive
kunarion): References to the dog, both in the Old Testament
and in the New Testament, are usually of a contemptuous
character. A dog, and especially a dead dog, is used as a
figure of insignificance. Goliath says to David (1 Sam 17:43
): "Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves?...
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-Price of, not to be brought into the sanctuary
De 23:18
-Shepherd dogs
Job 30:1
-Habits of
Licking blood
1Ki 21:19; 22:38
Licking sores
Lu 16:21
Returns to eat his own vomit
Pr 26:11; 2Pe 2:22
Lapping of
Jud 7:5
-Dumb and sleeping
Isa 56:10,11
-Greyhound
Pr 30:31
-Epithet of contempt
1Sa 17:43; 24:14; 2Sa 3:8; 9:8; 16:9; 2Ki 8:13...
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Dog. - The dog in the East does not enjoy the companionship and friendship of man as in the western countries. Its instinct has been cultivated only insofar as the protecting of the flocks and camps against wild animals is concerned. In the towns and villages it roams in the streets and places, of which it is the ordinary scavenger; packs of dogs i...
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