Bible Dictionary: Birds: Figurative

◄ Birds: Figurative ►

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Isaiah 16:2
For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.
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Isaiah 46:11
Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executes my counsel from a far country: yes, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.
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Jeremiah 12:9
My heritage is to me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her; come you, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.
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Ezekiel 39:4
You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you, and all your bands, and the people that is with you: I will give you to the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
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Even Unburied Bodies Will be Raised Again Whatever Befalls them ...
... will ask, Will then the fishes and other animals and carnivorous birds be raised ...
If things which pertain to the body are figurative, why are not those which ...
/.../on the resurrection of the flesh/chapter xxxii even unburied bodies will.htm

Whether Christ was Becomingly Presented in the Temple?
... for Him" just as in His birth He was "wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a
manger" [*Bede on Lk.1]. Nevertheless, these birds have a figurative sense. ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether christ was becomingly presented.htm

Whether a Suitable Cause Can be Assigned for the Ceremonies which ...
... offered up in peace-offerings and sin-offerings, and that nevertheless birds should
not ... as they were intended for Divine worship; and a figurative or mystical ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether a suitable cause can.htm

Whether There was any Reasonable Cause for the Ceremonial ...
... The figurative reason for these things is that all these animals signified certain
sins, in token of which those animals ... Of birds certain kinds were forbidden. ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether there was any reasonable.htm

The Lord's Furnace
... 'As birds flying'"mother birds fluttering over ... glowing earnestness, ardent enthusiasm
and the like, that we are scarcely aware of using figurative language. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture h/the lords furnace.htm

Of the Ark and the Deluge, and that we Cannot Agree with those who ...
... the water, whether the fishes that live submerged in it, or the sea-birds that swim ...
or that at all events they are far from having any figurative reference to ...
//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/city of god/chapter 27 of the ark and.htm

The Second Coming of Christ.
... But this perplexing expression under this theory refers exclusively to the figurative
and not ... is that of a net which suddenly encloses a covey of birds as they ...
/.../mcgarvey/the four-fold gospel/cxiv the second coming of.htm

'Physicians of no Value'
... As Hosea puts it in figurative fashion, Ephraim's discovery of his 'sickness' sent
him in the vain quest for help to the ... Foxes have holes, and the birds of the ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture a/physicians of no value.htm

The Seventh (And Last) vision "On Earth"
... horse, which sword proceedeth out of his mouth: And all the birds were satiated ... this
is not one, nor is it what commentators call "figurative language," that ...
/.../bullinger/commentary on revelation/the seventh and last vision.htm

Chapter vii
... and of all beasts which were not clean and of the birds and of ... make plain the fact
that the heavens poured down torrential rains, the figurative expression is ...
//christianbookshelf.org/leupold/exposition of genesis volume 1/chapter vii.htm