Thematic Bible: Scorpion
Thematic Bible
Reptiles » Mentioned in scripture » Scorpion
He led you through the great and terrible wilderness with its poisonous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty land where there was no water. He brought water out of the flint-like rock for you.
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Scorpion » Figurative » Of cruelty
and spoke to them according to the young men’s advice: “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with barbed whips.”
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Although my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with barbed whips.’”
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Scorpion » Symbolical
Then locusts came out of the smoke on to the earth, and power was given to them like the power that scorpions have on the earth.
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They were not permitted to kill them but were to torment them for five months; their torment is like the torment caused by a scorpion when it strikes a man.
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and they had tails with stingers like scorpions, so that with their tails they had the power to harm people for five months.
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Scorpion » Power over, given to the seventy disciples (the best mss. Have "seventy-two")
Scorpion » Unfit for food
Scorpion » Figurative » Of enemies
“But you, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words, though briers and thorns are beside you and you live among scorpions. Don’t be afraid of their words or be discouraged by the look on their faces, for they are a rebellious house.
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Scorpion » A venomous insect common in the wilderness through which the people of israel journeyed
He led you through the great and terrible wilderness with its poisonous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty land where there was no water. He brought water out of the flint-like rock for you.
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Scorpion » Sting of, located in the tail
and they had tails with stingers like scorpions, so that with their tails they had the power to harm people for five months.
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