14 occurrences

'Scales' in the Bible

"'These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that you may eat.

Verse ConceptsSea DwellersClean FoodBrooksFishThe SeaEating Meatpork

All that don't have fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of all the living creatures that are in the waters, they are an abomination to you,

Verse ConceptsAbominationsSea DwellersUnclean SpiritsGod Hating ThingsUnclean Animals

Whatever has no fins nor scales in the waters, that is an abomination to you.

Verse ConceptsAbominationsUnclean SpiritsGod Hating ThingsUnclean Animalspork

These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales may you eat;

and whatever doesn't have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you.

Verse ConceptsUnclean SpiritsUnclean AnimalsFish

Strong scales are his pride, shut up together with a close seal.

A wise man scales the city of the mighty, and brings down the strength of its confidence.

Verse ConceptsWisdom, Human NatureCities Under AttackPeople Overcoming

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

Verse ConceptsBalance In LifeBreadthDivine BalancesHand Of GodHillsNatureBalances, Metaphorical UseStrength, DivineWeighingNumerous As DustHollowScienceThe OceanbalancedustweightmeasurementThe Vastness Of Nature

I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will make the fish of your rivers stick to your scales; and I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers, with all the fish of your rivers which stick to your scales.

Verse ConceptsThings Stuck TogetherGod Lifting People

Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he received his sight. He arose and was baptized.

Verse ConceptsEyes Cared ForChristian BaptismScaleshumordamascus

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