'Dog' in the Bible

But against all the Israelites, whether man or beast, not even a dog will snarl, so that you may know that Yahweh makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.

So he brought the people down to the water, and the Lord said to Gideon, “Separate everyone who laps water with his tongue like a dog. Do the same with everyone who kneels to drink.”

He said to David, “Am I a dog that you come against me with sticks?” Then he cursed David by his gods.

Who has the king of Israel come after? What are you chasing after? A dead dog? A flea?

Mephibosheth bowed down and said, “What is your servant that you take an interest in a dead dog like me?”

Then Abishai son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over and cut his head off!”

Hazael said, “How could your servant, a mere dog, do this monstrous thing?”Elisha answered, “The Lord has shown me that you will be king over Aram.”

Deliver my life from the sword,my only life from the power of these dogs.

As a dog returns to its vomit,so a fool repeats his foolishness.

A person who is passing by and meddles in a quarrel that’s not hisis like one who grabs a dog by the ears.

But there is hope for whoever is joined with all the living, since a live dog is better than a dead lion.

It has happened to them according to the true proverb: A dog returns to its own vomit, and, “a sow, after washing itself, wallows in the mud.”