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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... perhaps , reading in Latin authors that they wor- shiped heaven , cœlum , " Nil præter nubes et cœli numen adorant , " instead of cœlum , they read cillum , an ass , and so reported that the Jews adored this animal . Something of this ...
... perhaps , reading in Latin authors that they wor- shiped heaven , cœlum , " Nil præter nubes et cœli numen adorant , " instead of cœlum , they read cillum , an ass , and so reported that the Jews adored this animal . Something of this ...
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... perhaps a solitary wild ass of the desert ; for the original will bear to be so rendered . This proverbial expression has descended among the Arabians to the present day , who still employ , as Schultens has remarked , the expressions ...
... perhaps a solitary wild ass of the desert ; for the original will bear to be so rendered . This proverbial expression has descended among the Arabians to the present day , who still employ , as Schultens has remarked , the expressions ...
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... perhaps refer to different races though of the same species ; so that a description of the properties of one may apply to both , though not without some variation . Who sent out the PARA free ? Or who hath loosed the bands of the ORUD ...
... perhaps refer to different races though of the same species ; so that a description of the properties of one may apply to both , though not without some variation . Who sent out the PARA free ? Or who hath loosed the bands of the ORUD ...
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... perhaps that pellucid kind called by Dr. Hill the ellipomacrostyla , " or beryl crystal . .PENINIM פנינים 66 As there is a gum brought from Arabia and the East Indies , bdellium , some critics have supposed this to be the bedolah of the ...
... perhaps that pellucid kind called by Dr. Hill the ellipomacrostyla , " or beryl crystal . .PENINIM פנינים 66 As there is a gum brought from Arabia and the East Indies , bdellium , some critics have supposed this to be the bedolah of the ...
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... perhaps , from finding the insect preying upon the pu- trid bodies of dead snakes . Some have supposed it the Gryllus verrucivorus of Linnæus . 14 The Egyptians paid a superstitious worship to the beetle . Blat- ta Egyptiaca , Lin . Mr ...
... perhaps , from finding the insect preying upon the pu- trid bodies of dead snakes . Some have supposed it the Gryllus verrucivorus of Linnæus . 14 The Egyptians paid a superstitious worship to the beetle . Blat- ta Egyptiaca , Lin . Mr ...
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Aleppo ancient animal appears Arabia Arabic beasts beautiful Bible bird Bochart called Cantic Celsius Chaldee Chron colour common creature crocodile described desert Deut Dioscorides Egypt Egyptians Exod Ezek feet flesh flowers Forskal fruit Geddes Greek grows Harmer Hasselquist Hebr Hebrew Hebrew name Hebrew word Herodotus Hieroz Hist horses Hosea insect Isai Isaiah Israel Israelites Jerom Jews Josephus Judea kind Kings learned Levit lion locust Luke Matth means mentioned Michaelis Moses myrrh nature Numb observes ostrich passage plant Plin Pliny probably prophet Prov Psal Psalm quæ referred remarks rendered resemblance sacred says Scheuchzer Scripture Illustrated seems Septuagint serpent Shaw signifies Solomon species stone Strabo supposed Syria thou tion translated Trav tree verse viii Vulgate wild wine wings wood worship writers xvii xxiv xxviii