Bible Dictionary: Insects: Bee

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Judges 14:8
And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcass of the lion.
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Psalm 118:12
They compassed me about like bees: they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
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Isaiah 7:18
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
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Library

The Creation of Fowl and Water Animals.
... Ptilota, as wasps, others Coleoptera, as beetles and all those insects which brought ...
and commanded "to overcome evil with good." [1658] Take the bee for your ...
/.../basil/basil letters and select works/homily viii the creation of.htm

Continues the Same Subject: Explains the Prayer of Union by a ...
... Could we persuade ourselves that insects so utterly without the use of reason as
a silkworm or a bee would work with such industry and skill in our service ...
/.../teresa/the interior castle or the mansions/chapter ii continues the same 3.htm

When one at the Back of the North Wind Wanted to Know How Things ...
... A creature like a great humble-bee or cockchafer flew past his face; but it
could be neither, for there were no insects amongst the ice. ...
/.../macdonald/at the back of the north wind/chapter 11 when one at.htm

The Struggle for the Life of Others
... During the warmth of summer, when food is abundant, these insects produce
parthenogenetically nothing but females ... "The three kinds of inmates in a bee-hive ...
/.../the lowell lectures on the ascent of man/chapter vii the struggle for.htm

Away in Paris, a Vast Concourse of People were Assembled Round an ...
... It rose on the air in a sort of bee-like humming monotone, and then died away, while ...
the fly!"and if I have no more of God in me than such insects, still I ...
//christianbookshelf.org/corelli/the master-christian/xxxii away in paris a.htm

A Letter from a West Indian Cottage Ornee
... How the seeds of the plants and the eggs of the insects have been preserved ... That
huge bee in steel-blue armour, booming straight at you"whom some one compared ...
//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/at last/chapter v a letter from.htm

A Provision Ground
... the 'division of labour.' He is vanishing fast, the old bee-keeping, apple ... weakens
and retards the plants; encourages parasitic moss and insects; and, moreover ...
//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/at last/chapter xvi a provision ground.htm

Striking Similes
... As busy as a bee. As cattle driven by a gadfly. ... Meaningless as the syllables of an
unknown tongue. Men moved hither and thither like insects in their crevices. ...
/.../kleiser/fifteen thousand useful phrases/section viii striking similes.htm

Homilies on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians.
... Bee, lesson from, in that it dies in stinging, [835]368; commended in Scripture ... good,
[1420]382; makes riddance of thorns, [1421]387; kills small insects far off ...
/.../homilies on philippians colossians and.htm

Daily Bread
... of the pastures, the rejoicing life of animals and birds and insects, the sweet ... sunny
Alpine pastures with their tinkle of sheep-bell and hum of mountain bee. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/merriam/the chief end of man/v daily bread.htm

Subtopics

Insects: Clean and Unclean (Ceremonially Speaking)

Insects: Created by God

Insects: Divided Into: Clean and Fit for Food

Insects: Divided Into: Unclean and Abominable