'Dog' in the Bible

But among the Israelis, from people to animals, not even a dog will bark, so you may know that the LORD is distinguishing between the Egyptians and the Israelis.'

So he brought his soldiers down to the water, and the LORD told Gideon, "You are to cull out everyone who laps up water with his tongue like a dog from everyone who kneels to drink."

The Philistine asked David, "Am I a dog that you come at me with sticks?" Then the Philistine cursed David by his own gods and

After whom is the king of Israel going out? Whom are you pursuing? A dead dog or a single flea?

Mephibosheth bowed low again and asked, "Who am I, your servant, that you would pay attention to a dead dog like me?"

At this point, Zeruiah's son Abishai asked the king, "Why should this dead dog be cursing your majesty the king? May I have permission to go over and cut off his head?"

Deliver me from the sword; my precious life from the power of the dog.

A dog that returns to its vomit is like a fool who reverts to his folly.

Picking up a dog by the ears that's what someone is like who meddles in another's fight.

"While someone is among the living, hope remains," because "it is better to be a living dog than to be a dead lion."

The proverb is true that describes what has happened to them: "A dog returns to its vomit," and "A pig that is washed goes back to wallow in the mud."