10 occurrences

'Birds' in the Bible

Looking, I saw that there was no man, and all the birds of heaven had gone in flight.

For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.

As the fowl-house is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: for this reason they have become great and have got wealth.

And the bodies of this people will be food for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth; and there will be no one to send them away.

How long will the land have grief, and the plants of all the land be dry? because of the sins of the people living in it, destruction has overtaken the beasts and the birds; because they said, God does not see our ways.

My heritage is like a brightly coloured bird to me; the cruel birds are attacking her on every side: go, get together all the beasts of the field, make them come for destruction.

And I will put over them four divisions, says the Lord: the sword causing death, dogs pulling the dead bodies about, and the birds of heaven, and the beasts of the earth to take their bodies for food and put an end to them.

Death from evil diseases will overtake them; there will be no weeping for them and their bodies will not be put to rest; they will be like waste on the face of the earth: the sword and need of food will put an end to them; their dead bodies will be meat for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth.

I will make the purpose of Judah and Jerusalem come to nothing in this place; I will have them put to the sword by their haters, and by the hands of those who have designs on their life; and their dead bodies I will give to be food for the birds of heaven and the beasts of the earth.

Even these I will give up into the hands of their haters and into the hands of those who have designs against their lives: and their dead bodies will become food for the birds of heaven and the beasts of the earth.

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
עיט 
`ayit 
Usage: 8

בּעל 
Ba`al 
Usage: 85

עוף 
`owph 
Usage: 71

צפּר צפּור 
Tsippowr 
Usage: 40

צפר 
Ts@phar (Aramaic) 
Usage: 4

ὄρνεον 
Orneon 
Usage: 3

πετεινόν 
Peteinon 
Usage: 4

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