'Beast' in the Bible

The carcass of an animal that died of its own and an animal torn by wild beast may be used for any purpose except for eating.

But King Jehoash of Israel sent this message to King Amaziah of Judah: "The thorn bush in Lebanon sent this message to the cedar of Lebanon: "Give your daughter to my son in marriage.' But just then a wild beast from Lebanon wandered by and trampled down the thorn bush.

"Then a beast enters its lair and remains in its den.

You bring darkness and it becomes night; when every beast of the forest prowls.

"Son of Man, when a nation sins against me by a treacherous act, I'll reach out to oppose it, destroying its source of food, by sending famine against it, and by destroying both people and beast within it.

"Or if I were to send a pestilence against that land and pour out my anger in it with bloodshed, destroying both man and beast in it,

Neither man nor beast will walk through that area. It won't even be inhabited for 40 years.