The Natural History of the Bible ; Or, A Description of All the Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, and Insects, Trees, Plants, Flowers, Gums, and Precious Stones, Mentioned in the Sacred Scriptures: Collected from the Best Authorities, and Alphabetically Arranged |
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... render a quadruped lawful , so two characters are necessary to answer the same purpose in fishes . " III . OF BIRDS ... rendered , and these are forbidden without enu- merating those which are allowed . It will be found , however , on ...
... render a quadruped lawful , so two characters are necessary to answer the same purpose in fishes . " III . OF BIRDS ... rendered , and these are forbidden without enu- merating those which are allowed . It will be found , however , on ...
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... rendered Jeremiah , xvii . 1 . But the Hebrew word rather means a very hard kind of stone , probably the SMIRIS , which was also used for cutting , engraving , and polishing other hard stones and crystals1 . The word occurs also in Ezek ...
... rendered Jeremiah , xvii . 1 . But the Hebrew word rather means a very hard kind of stone , probably the SMIRIS , which was also used for cutting , engraving , and polishing other hard stones and crystals1 . The word occurs also in Ezek ...
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... render it way ACCHABIS , which we translate elsewhere , spider ; they may therefore have understood it to be the tarantula . It is rendered asp by the Septuagint and Vulgate , and is so taken Rom . iii . 13. The name is from the Arabic ...
... render it way ACCHABIS , which we translate elsewhere , spider ; they may therefore have understood it to be the tarantula . It is rendered asp by the Septuagint and Vulgate , and is so taken Rom . iii . 13. The name is from the Arabic ...
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... ( rendered , by error , waters ) . With what propriety then does the lion , the young lion , come in between them ? Would it not be better to render instead of ' CA- PHARIM , CI - APHARIM , from aphar , dust ; and to con- sider the word ...
... ( rendered , by error , waters ) . With what propriety then does the lion , the young lion , come in between them ? Would it not be better to render instead of ' CA- PHARIM , CI - APHARIM , from aphar , dust ; and to con- sider the word ...
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... render it potable . This seems to have been the opinion of the author of Ecclesiasticus , ch . xxxviii . 5 . That other ... rendered pure and salutary by being put into jars , the inside of which is rubbed with a paste made of bitter ...
... render it potable . This seems to have been the opinion of the author of Ecclesiasticus , ch . xxxviii . 5 . That other ... rendered pure and salutary by being put into jars , the inside of which is rubbed with a paste made of bitter ...
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