Thematic Bible: Reptiles


Thematic Bible



These are the ones that are unclean to you among all the swarming things. Anyone who touches them when they die will be unclean until evening. Verse ConceptsCorpses Of AnimalsUnclean Until Evening

One who eats from its carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening, and whoever carries its carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. Every swarming thing that swarms on the land is detestable; it must not be eaten. You must not eat anything that crawls on its belly or anything that walks on all fours or on any number of legs of all the swarming things that swarm on the land, because they are detestable. read more.
Do not make yourselves detestable by any of the swarming things. You must not defile yourselves by them and become unclean by them,

He saw heaven opened and an object something like a large sheet descending, being let down to earth by its four corners. In it were all kinds of four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth and wild birds. Then a voice said to him, "Get up, Peter; slaughter and eat!" read more.
But Peter said, "Certainly not, Lord, for I have never eaten anything defiled and ritually unclean!"

Their wine is snakes' poison, the deadly venom of cobras. Verse ConceptsAlcoholCobrasSerpentsSnakesThings Like Snakes

The Lord said, "I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins. Jackals will make their home there. I will destroy the towns of Judah so that no one will be able to live in them." Verse ConceptsRuinsArchaeologyTearsDestruction Of JerusalemEmpty Citiesjerusalem

I have become a brother to jackals and a companion of ostriches. Verse ConceptsBirds, Types Of BirdsOstricheslonliness

You will subdue a lion and a snake; you will trample underfoot a young lion and a serpent. Verse ConceptsCobrasLionsSerpentsSnakesLions, Figurative Use OfTrampling AnimalsDeliverance From LionsPower Over SnakesOvercoming Obstacles

Their venom is like that of a snake, like a deaf serpent that does not hear, Verse ConceptsCobrasBitingEarsPoisonSerpentsWicked Described AsAnimals, Types OfThings Like SnakesRefusing To Hear

Afterward it bites like a snake, and stings like a viper. Verse ConceptsAlcoholPoisonSnakesThings Like SnakesSnakebitesalcoholism

anything that crawls on the ground, or any fish in the deep waters of the earth.

I say this so you will not corrupt yourselves by making an image in the form of any kind of figure. This includes the likeness of a human male or female, Verse ConceptsLike CreaturesAvoiding IdolatryRegulations For Men And WomenAncestral Worshipimage

This is a message about the animals in the Negev: Through a land of distress and danger, inhabited by lionesses and roaring lions, by snakes and darting adders, they transport their wealth on the backs of donkeys, their riches on the humps of camels, to a nation that cannot help them. Verse ConceptsenvoyBackSnakesBeastsflying

and who brought you through the great, fearful desert of venomous serpents and scorpions, an arid place with no water. He made water flow from a flint rock and Verse ConceptsFlintClimates, Typesdrought, physicalSnakesSuffering, HardshipThirstAnimals, Types OfGod Providing WaterDry PlacesProvision From RocksScorpions

Then I saw three unclean spirits that looked like frogs coming out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. Verse ConceptsFrogsMouthsFalse Prophets, Examples OfSatan, Agents OfThree AnimalsSpirit BeingsCosmic CreaturesOther References To MouthsBowl JudgmentsCatastrophic EventsjumpingDemonic Influence

But if you refuse to release them, then I am going to plague all your territory with frogs.

the Mediterranean gecko, the spotted lizard, the wall gecko, the skink, and the chameleon. Verse ConceptsAnimals, Types OfLizards

Let them be like a snail that melts away as it moves along! Let them be like stillborn babies that never see the sun! Verse ConceptsMiscarriagesMiscarriages And Stillborn

A baby will play over the hole of a snake; over the nest of a serpent an infant will put his hand. Verse ConceptsNestsCobrasSnakesAnimals, Types OfCrawlingPower Over SnakesChildren And The Kingdombaby

They hatch the eggs of a poisonous snake and spin a spider's web. Whoever eats their eggs will die, a poisonous snake is hatched. Verse ConceptsInsectsSpinning And WeavingSpiders


Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? Verse ConceptsRepulsive FoodFish

and who brought you through the great, fearful desert of venomous serpents and scorpions, an arid place with no water. He made water flow from a flint rock and Verse ConceptsFlintClimates, Typesdrought, physicalSnakesSuffering, HardshipThirstAnimals, Types OfGod Providing WaterDry PlacesProvision From RocksScorpions

the Mediterranean gecko, the spotted lizard, the wall gecko, the skink, and the chameleon. Verse ConceptsAnimals, Types OfLizards

"'Now this is what is unclean to you among the swarming things that swarm on the land: the rat, the mouse, the large lizard of any kind, Verse ConceptsAnimals, Types OfMiceAccording To Its KindLizardsMolesMany CreaturesKinds Of Living Things

the Mediterranean gecko, the spotted lizard, the wall gecko, the skink, and the chameleon. Verse ConceptsAnimals, Types OfLizards

the Mediterranean gecko, the spotted lizard, the wall gecko, the skink, and the chameleon. Verse ConceptsAnimals, Types OfLizards

the Mediterranean gecko, the spotted lizard, the wall gecko, the skink, and the chameleon. Verse ConceptsAnimals, Types OfLizards

"'Now this is what is unclean to you among the swarming things that swarm on the land: the rat, the mouse, the large lizard of any kind, Verse ConceptsAnimals, Types OfMiceAccording To Its KindLizardsMolesMany CreaturesKinds Of Living Things

God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: cattle, creeping things, and wild animals, each according to its kind." It was so. God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the cattle according to their kinds, and all the creatures that creep along the ground according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.

the Mediterranean gecko, the spotted lizard, the wall gecko, the skink, and the chameleon. Verse ConceptsAnimals, Types OfLizards

The leech has two daughters: "Give! Give!" There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, "Enough" -- Verse ConceptsInsectsThree Or FourShortagesTwo WomenGreedvampires

May Dan be a snake beside the road, a viper by the path, that bites the heels of the horse so that its rider falls backward. Verse ConceptsBitingSerpentsSnakesHeelsPeople TumblingThings Like SnakesSnakebitesFalling Backwards


you animals and all you cattle, you creeping things and birds, Verse Conceptsbugs

So I went in and looked. I noticed every figure of creeping thing and beast -- detestable images -- and every idol of the house of Israel, engraved on the wall all around. Verse ConceptsArtHouses

He produced manuals on botany, describing every kind of plant, from the cedars of Lebanon to the hyssop that grows on walls. He also produced manuals on biology, describing animals, birds, insects, and fish. Verse ConceptsCedarHyssopPlantsRelation Of Animals To ManBeauty Of NatureFishPets

Tell them, 'This is what the sovereign Lord says: "'Look, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster lying in the midst of its waterways, who has said, "My Nile is my own, I made it for myself." Verse ConceptsCosmic CreaturesPeople Possessing Other Things

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles. Verse ConceptsIncorruptibleImmortality, In NtNations DescribedBirds, Features OfNature DecayingNo DecayPeople Are CorruptibleIdolatryExchanging Good For BadNature Of IdolatryBirdscatsimage

They hatch the eggs of a poisonous snake and spin a spider's web. Whoever eats their eggs will die, a poisonous snake is hatched. Verse ConceptsInsectsSpinning And WeavingSpiders

When Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh, they did so, just as the Lord had commanded them -- Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh and his servants and it became a snake. Verse ConceptsAaron, PrivilegesMiracles Of Moses And AaronThings Changedmagic

A baby will play over the hole of a snake; over the nest of a serpent an infant will put his hand. Verse ConceptsNestsCobrasSnakesAnimals, Types OfCrawlingPower Over SnakesChildren And The Kingdombaby

But if you refuse to release them, then I am going to plague all your territory with frogs.

When Paul had gathered a bundle of brushwood and was putting it on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat and fastened itself on his hand. Verse ConceptsHeatHot ThingsFirewoodjumping

He sucks the poison of serpents; the fangs of a viper kill him. Verse ConceptsTeeth

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