Prov. xix, 12. The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.

Prov. xx, 2. The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.

without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.

Isa. v, 29. Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall

deliver it.

Isa. xxi, 8. And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights.

Isa. xxxviii, 13. I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

Jer. iv, 7. The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without

an inhabitant.

Jer. xii, 8. Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.

Jer. xxv, 38. He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the flerceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.

Jer. xlix, 19. Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will ap-| point me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?

Jer. 11, 38. They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps.

Ezek. xix, 2, 3, 5, 6. And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.

And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men. Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion. And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.

Joel 1, 6. For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and

in Damascus in a couch.

Micah v, 8. And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.

Nahum ii, 11-13. Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid? The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin. Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.

2 Tim. iv, 17. Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

because your adversary the devil, 1 Pet. v, 8. Be sober, be vigilant; as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.

Rev. iv, 7. And the first beast was like' a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.

Rev. v, 5. And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.

Rev. x, 3. And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.

Dan. vi, 24. And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den

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of lions, them, their children, their wives; and the lions had mastery of them, and brake their bones in pieces or ever t came at the bottom of the den (See under Miracle.)

LEVIATHAN OR CROCODI

BULK AND APPEARANCE.

maketh the deep to boil lik Job xli, 31, 32, 18-21, 11. pot: he maketh the sea like a of ointment. He maketh a p to shine after him; one wo think the deep to be hoary. his neesings a light doth sh and his eyes are like the eyel of the morning. Out of his mo go burning lamps, and sparks fire leap out. Out of his nost goeth smoke, as out of a seeth. pot or caldron. His breath ki leth coals, and a flame goeth of his mouth. Who hath preve ed me, that I should repay M whatsoever is under the wh heaven is mine.

IMPENETRABLE SCALES. Job xli, 7, 12-17, 23, 26-30. C thou fill his skin with bar irons? or his head with fish spe I will not conceal his parts, his power, nor his comely proj tion. Who can discover the of his garment? or who can to him with his double bri Who can open the doors of face? his teeth are terrible ro about. His scales are his pr shut up together as with a c seal. One is so near to anot that no air can come betw

them. They are joined on another, they stick together, they cannot be sundered. flakes of his flesh are joined t ther: they are firm in themse they cannot be moved. sword of him that layeth at cannot hold: the spear, the d eth iron as straw, and brass nor the habergeon. He este rotten wood. The arrow ca make him flee: slingstones turned with him into stab Darts are counted as stubble laugheth at the shaking of a sp Sharp stones are under him spreadeth sharp pointed thi upon the mire.

UNTAMEABLE.

Job xli, 1-6, 8-10, 22, 24, 25, 35 Canst thou draw out leviat with an hook? or his tongue v a cord which thou lettest do Canst thou put an hook into nose? or bore his jaw thro with a thorn? Will he m many supplications unto t will he speak soft words thee? Will he make a coven with thee? wilt thou take i for a servant for ever? Wilt play with him as with a bird

wilt thou bind him for thy maid-I ens Shall thy companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants? Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more. Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the ght of him? None is so fierce

that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me? In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him. His heart is as firm as a stone, yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone. When he

raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid by reason of breakings they purify themselves. Upon earth there is not his like, who is

He behold

shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.

WOLF.

ITS FEROCITY.

Gen. xlix, 27. Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.

of the forest shall slay them, and Jer. v, 6. Wherefore a lion out a wolf of the evenings shall spoil

them, a leopard shall watch over out thence shall be torn in pieces: their cities: every one that goeth because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.

Ezek. xxii, 27. Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dis

made without fear. - all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride. P. Ixxiv, 14. Thou brakest the ads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the peo-honest gain. pie inhabiting the wilderness.

Pt. iv, 26. There go the ships: there is that leviathan whom Lacu hast made to play therein.

I. vi, 1. In that day the Lop with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish levithan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and be shall slay the dragon that

is in the sea.

Lt. xxxiii, 17. His glory is like irstling of his bullock, and his are like the horns of uniwith them he shall push the Pople together to the ends of the art and they are the ten thounds of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh. Job xxxix, 9, 11, 12. Will the or be willing to serve thee, abide by thy crib? Wilt thou st him, because his strength is at or wilt thou leave thy ur to him? Wilt thou believe , that he will bring home thy deed, and gather it into thy barn? F. xxil, 21. Save me from the n's month: for thou hast heard

more fierce than the evening Hab. i, 8. Their horses*** are

wolves.

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Matth. vii, 15. Beware of false

prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Matth. x, 16. Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

John x, 12. But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the eth the sheep. wolf catcheth them, and scatter

Acts xx, 29. For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

PROPHETIC SYMBOLS. Dan. vii, 3-5, 7, 11, 12, 17. And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another. The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it. And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour

the night visions, and behold a much flesh. After this I saw in fourth beast, dreadful and terrible,

horns. I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame. As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time. These great beasts, which are four, are four kings,

which shall arise out of the earth.

HUNTING.

Gen. x, 9. He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherethe mighty hunter before the fore it is said, Even as Nimrod LORD.

Gen. xxv, 27. And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.

Gen. xxvii, 3, 5, 30. Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy wea go out to the field, and take me pons, thy quiver and thy bow, and some venison; And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it. And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from

his hunting.

Judges xv, 4, 5. And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails. And when he had set the

brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philis tines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.

1 Sam. xxiv, 11. Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it.

Job x, 16. For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.

roe from the hand of the hunter, Prov. vi, 5. Deliver thyself as a and as a bird from the hand of the

fowler.

P. xeli, 10. But my horn shalt fan exalt like the horn of an uniI shall be anointed with fresh oil

Isa. xxxiv, 7. And the unicorns

had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and It was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten

Isa. li, 20. Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net,

they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.

Micah vii, 2. The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with

a net.

2 Pet. li, 12. But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption.

FOWLS.

Gen. vil, 3, 14. Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

And every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.

Gen. xl, 17, 19. And in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head. Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.

1 Sam. xvii, 44. And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field.

1 Kin. iv, 33. He spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.

1 Κίπ. χίν, 11. ... And him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the LORD hath spoken it.

P3. xi, 1. In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?

Ps. 1, 11. I know all the fowls of

the mountains.

Ps. lxxviii, 27. He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea.

Isa. xviii, 6. They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.

Isa. xxxi, 5. As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.

Isa. xlvi, 11. Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.

Jer. xil, 9. Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the

birds round about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to de

vour.

Ezek. xxxix, 17. And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.

Eccles. x,20. Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.

Cant. ii, 12. The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our

land.

CAGE.

Jer. v, 27. As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.

that are left, have I gathered the earth; and there was a that moved the wing, or oper the mouth, or peeped.

Isa. xvi, 2. For it shall be as a wandering bird cast out of nest, so the daughters of M shall be at the fords of Arnca

Jer. xxii. 23. O inhabitant Lebanon, that makest thy nest the cedars, how gracious s thou be when pangs come thee, the pain as of a wom travail!

Obad. 4. Though thon e thyself as the eagle, and the thou set thy nest among stars, thence will I bring t down, saith the LORD.

Hab. ii, 9. Woe to him coveteth an evil covetous his house, that he may set to on high, that he may be delive from the power of evil!

Matth. xiii, 32. Which ind the least of all seeds: but wh is grown, it is the greatest are herbs, and becometh a the that the birds of the air com lodge in the branches thereaf

NEST.

Deut. xxii, 6, 7. If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young: But thou shalt in any

wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.

Job xxix, 18. Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.

Ps. lxxxiv, 3. Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.

Ps. civ, 12, 17. By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches. Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.

Prov. xxvil, 8. As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.

Isa. x, 14. And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs

ВАТ.

Isa. ii, 20. In that day 8 shall cast his idols of silver. his idols of gold, which they each one for himself to wors the moles and to the bats.

LOVELY, MOURNFUL, AND
WEAK.

Gen. vill, 8-12. Also be forth a dove from him, to the waters were abated from the face of the ground; But dove found no rest for the so her foot, and she returned him into the ark, for the w were on the face of the w earth: then he put forth his h and took her, and pulled he unto him into the ark. An stayed yet other seven days again he sent forth the dove of the ark; and the dove cara to him in the evening, and,

a wailing like the dragons, and I up all that day, and all that night, mourning as the owls. and all the next day, and they quails: he that gathered the least gathered ten gathered homers: and they spread them all for themselves round abroad about the camp.

Isa. xxxiv, 11. The owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion and the stones of emptiness.

PARTRIDGE.

Jer. xvii, 11. As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.

PEACOCK.

1 Kin. x, 22. For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

PELICAN.

Ps. cil, 6. I am like a pelican of the wilderness.

POULTRY.

RAVEN.

Gen. viii, 6, 7. And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

Cant. v, 11. His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.

Luke xil, 24. Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls.

in the snare; so are the sons o men snared in an evil time, wher it falleth suddenly upon them. Lam. iii, 52. Mine enemi chased me sore, like a bird, wit out cause.

Hos. vii, 12. When they shall g I will spread my net upon then I will bring them down as th fowls of the heaven; I will cha tise them, as their congregati hath heard.

Hos. ix, 8. The watchman Ephraim was with my God: the prophet is a snare of a fowl in all his ways, and hatred in t house of his God.

Amos iii, 5. Can a bird fall i snare upon the earth, where gin is for him? shall one take a snare from the earth, and ba taken nothing at all?

FISHES.

CRANE.

Ps. Ixxxiv, 3. The sparrow hath found an house for herself.

river shall stink; and the Egypti shall loathe to drink of the w of the river.

Num. xi, 22. Shall the flocks the herds be slain for them

top.

Matth. xxiii, 37. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often Prov. xxvi, 2. As the bird by would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen wandering, as the swallow by flygathereth her chickens under hering, so the curse causeless shall wings, and ye would not!

Matth. xxvi, 34, 74, 75. Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew. And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly.

QUAILS.

Exod. xvi, 12, 13. I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying. At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God. And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.

Num. xi, 31, 32. And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth. And the people stood

rebuke I dry up the sea, I the rivers a wilderness: their stinketh, because there is water, and dieth for thirst.

Ezek. xlvii, 9. And it shall to pass, that every thing that eth, which moveth, whithers the rivers shall come, shall and there shall be a very multitude of fish, because i waters shall come they shall be healed; and e thing shall live whither the

cometh.

thither:

Jonah i, 17. Now the LORD prepared a great fish to sa up Jonah. And Jonah was i belly of the fish three days three nights.

Matth. xiv, 17. And ther unto him, We have here but loaves, and two fishes.