Thematic Bible: Dog
Thematic Bible
Beasts » Unclean » Dog
And ye shall be holy men unto me; neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.
And he called him and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? Give an account of thy stewardship, for thou may no longer be steward.
Dog » Epithet of contempt
Then Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, said unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse, my lord the king? Let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head.
And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
After whom is the king of Israel come out? After whom dost thou pursue? After a dead dog? After a flea?
Then Abner was very angry for the words of Ishbosheth and said, Am I a dog's head in regard to Judah? I have shown mercy this day unto the house of Saul, thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends and have not delivered thee into the hand of David that thou dost charge me today with iniquity concerning this woman?
And he bowed himself and said, Who is thy slave, that thou should look upon such a dead dog as I am?
And Hazael said, But what, is thy slave a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The LORD has showed me that thou shalt be king over Syria.
His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant; they are all dumb dogs; they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, they love to slumber. And these anxious dogs are insatiable, and even the shepherds did not know enough to understand: they all look to their own ways, each one for his gain, from his quarter.
But he answered and said, It is not good to take the children's bread and to cast it to the little dogs.
Dog » Habits of » Returns to eat his own vomit
But it has happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog returns unto his own vomit, and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
As a dog returns to his vomit, so the fool returns to his folly.
Dog » Figurative
Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
But outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the fornicators and the murderers and the idolaters and whosoever loves and makes a lie.
Dog » Habits of » Licking blood
And they washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria, and they also washed his armour; ; and the dogs licked up his blood, according unto the word of the LORD which he had spoken.
And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus hath the LORD said, Hast thou murdered and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him again, saying, Thus hath the LORD said, In the same place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall the dogs also lick thy blood, even thine.
Dog » Dumb and sleeping
His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant; they are all dumb dogs; they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, they love to slumber. And these anxious dogs are insatiable, and even the shepherds did not know enough to understand: they all look to their own ways, each one for his gain, from his quarter.
Dog » Habits of » Licking sores
and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
Dog » Price of, not to be brought into the sanctuary
Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow; for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Dog » Shepherd dogs
But now those that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
Dog » Greyhound
the greyhound who is girded up of loins; a he goat also, and the king, against whom no one rises up.
Dog » Habits of » Lapping of
So he brought the people down unto the water, and the LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that laps of the water with his tongue as a dog laps, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that bows down upon his knees to drink.