Bible Dictionary: Eggs

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Strong's Hebrew

1716. dagar -- to gather together as a brood
... root Definition to gather together as a brood NASB Word Usage gather (1), hatches
eggs (1). ... A primitive root, to brood over eggs or young -- gather, sit. ...
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1000. betsah -- an egg
... 999, 1000. betsah. 1001 . an egg. Transliteration: betsah Phonetic Spelling:
(bay-tsaw') Short Definition: eggs. Word Origin from ...
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Library

The Gentleman with Rotten Eggs
... a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg, and Riding Horseback; Gwennap
and 20,000 People; Death of Whitefield The Gentleman with Rotten Eggs. ...
/.../wesley/the journal of john wesley/the gentleman with rotten eggs.htm

Display of Different Eggs.
... Book IV. Chapter XXIX."Display of Different Eggs. But different eggs they
display after this manner. Perforating the top at both ...
/.../the refutation of all heresies/chapter xxix display of different eggs.htm

Whether it is Fitting that those who Fast Should be Bidden to ...
... OF FASTING (EIGHT ARTICLES) Whether it is fitting that those who fast should
be bidden to abstain from flesh meat, eggs, and milk foods? ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether it is fitting that 2.htm

We have Likewise Learned that in the Regions of Armenia and in ...
... We have likewise learned that in the regions of Armenia and in other places certain
people eat eggs and cheese on the Sabbaths and Lord's days of the holy lent ...
/.../schaff/the seven ecumenical councils/canon lvi we have likewise.htm

The Evolution of a Mother
... What does exist, and sometimes in marvellous perfection, is care for eggs; but that
is a wholly different thing, both in its physical and psychical aspect ...
/.../the lowell lectures on the ascent of man/chapter viii the evolution of.htm

Evil Cannot be Suppressed by the Physical Force of the Government ...
... We may dispute upon the question whether the nestlings are ready to do without the
mother-hen and to come out of the eggs, or whether they are not yet advanced ...
/.../tolstoy/the kingdom of god is within you/chapter x evil cannot be.htm

Healed by Divine Power
... "Mother," he replied, "I can eat two eggs if you can spare that many, and you may
cook them for me." When Mother cooked the eggs, he looked at her and said ...
/.../cole/trials and triumphs of faith/chapter ix healed by divine.htm

This ChapterContinues the Same Subject and Speaks of Another Kind ...
... to heaven (that is, the keeping of the commandments) it will share the fate of the
butterfly that comes from the silkworm, which lays some eggs that produce ...
/.../the interior castle or the mansions/chapter iii this chapter continues.htm

There is a Popular Philosophical Joke Intended to Typify the ...
... We talk of nothing but useful men and working institutions; that is, we only
think of the chickens as things that will lay more eggs. ...
/.../chesterton/whats wrong with the world/chapter 2 there is a.htm

Egg-Shell Christians
... You have sometimes heard it said of people that "they have to be handled like eggs";
eggs must be handled carefully, or you are likely to break them. ...
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Thesaurus

Eggs (7 Occurrences)
...Eggs (7 Occurrences). ... Job 39:14 For she leaves her eggs on the earth, warms them
in the dust, (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Egg (3 Occurrences)
...Eggs deserted (Isaiah 10:14), of a bird (Deuteronomy 22:6), an ostrich (Job 39:14),
the cockatrice (Isaiah 59:5). In Luke 11:12, an egg is contrasted with a ...
/e/egg.htm - 10k

Partridge (2 Occurrences)
... Some interpret the words as meaning that the covetous man will be as surely
disappointed as the partridge which gathers in eggs, not of her own laying, and ...
/p/partridge.htm - 13k

Ostrich (9 Occurrences)
... The allusion here is to the habit of the ostrich with reference to its eggs, which
is thus described: "The outer layer of eggs is generally so ill covered that ...
/o/ostrich.htm - 18k

Nest (22 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The bed or receptacle prepared by a fowl
for holding her eggs and for hatching and rearing her young. ...
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Brood (19 Occurrences)
... 3. (vt) That which is bred or produced; breed; species. 4. (vt) Heavy waste in
tin and copper ores. 5. (a.) Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs. ...
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Spider (3 Occurrences)
... with two or three pairs of spinnerets near the end, by means of which they spin
threads of silk to form cocoons, or nests, to protect their eggs and young. ...
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Lapwing (2 Occurrences)
... Its eggs are the plover's eggs of the London market, esteemed a delicacy. ... The
lapwing is a plover, and its flesh and eggs are delicious food. ...
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Bird (65 Occurrences)
... Deuteronomy 22:6 If a bird's nest chance to be before you in the way, in any tree
or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young ...
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Birds (125 Occurrences)
... of the odor of their food. Young ostriches have sweet, tender flesh and
the eggs are edible also. In putting these birds among the ...
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Bible Concordance

Eggs (7 Occurrences)

Deuteronomy 22:6 If a bird's nest chance to be before you in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the young:
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Job 39:14 For she leaves her eggs on the earth, warms them in the dust,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Proverbs 27:8 Like a bird wandering from the place of her eggs is a man wandering from his station.
(BBE)

Isaiah 10:14 My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, have I gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 34:15 The arrowsnake will make her hole and put her eggs there, and get her young together under her shade: there the hawks will come together by twos.
(BBE NAS NIV)

Isaiah 59:5 They hatch adders' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 17:11 As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS NIV)

Subtopics

Eggs

Related Terms

Egg (3 Occurrences)

Partridge (2 Occurrences)

Ostrich (9 Occurrences)

Nest (22 Occurrences)

Brood (19 Occurrences)

Spider (3 Occurrences)

Lapwing (2 Occurrences)

Bird (65 Occurrences)

Birds (125 Occurrences)