Beasts: 2 definitions
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Beasts means something in Christianity. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. On this page you will also find search and cross-referencing tools.
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Source: archive.org: Nave's Topical BibleBeasts definition and references: –See Animals
Source: archive.org: Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical LiteratureBeasts refers to:—In the Bible, this word, when used in contradistinction to man (Psalms 36:6), denotes a brute creature generally, when in contradistinction to creeping things (Leviticus 11:2-7; Leviticus 27:26), it has reference to four-footed animals; and when to wild mammalia, as in Genesis 1:25, means domesticated cattle.
The zoology of Scripture may, in a general sense, be said to embrace the whole range of animated nature but after the first brief notice of the creation of animals recorded in Genesis, it is limited more particularly to the animals found in Egypt, Arabia, Palestine, Syria, and the countries eastward, in some cases, to beyond the Euphrates. It comprehends mammalia, birds, reptiles, fishes, and invertebrate animals: but in a work like the Bible, written for a far different purpose, we might naturally expect that only a small part of these would be found described, and that generic indications would more frequently occur than specific characteristics.
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Starts with: Beasts and birds.
Full-text (+490): Yutha, Vitamsa, Beast, Mrigapati, Mrigaraja, Kautakika, Shaunika, Bacali, Caravem, Samaja, Miginda, Baceli, Bacyali, Jatalaga, Morihanta, Behemoth, Haga, Mrigadvija, Vaitamsika, Rutajna.
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Search found 326 books and stories containing Beasts; (plurals include: Beastses). You can also click to the full overview containing English textual excerpts. Below are direct links for the most relevant articles:
Ante-nicene Fathers (by Alexander Roberts)
Chapter IV - Allow me to fall a prey to the wild beasts < [Ignatius]
Chapter IV - Beware of these heretics < [Ignatius]
Chapter I - His own sufferings: exhortation to stedfastness < [Ignatius]
Bible cyclopedia, critical and expository (by Andrew Robert Fausset)
Tibetan tales (derived from Indian sources) (by W. R. S. Ralston)
Satapatha-brahmana (by Julius Eggeling)
Kanda XIII, adhyaya 2, brahmana 4 < [Thirteenth Kanda]
Kanda XIII, adhyaya 2, brahmana 5 < [Thirteenth Kanda]
Kanda VI, adhyaya 3, brahmana 2 < [Sixth Kanda]
Kautilya Arthashastra (by R. Shamasastry)
Chapter 26 - The Superintendent of Slaughter-house < [Book 2 - The duties of Government Superintendents]
Chapter 10 - Fines in Lieu of Mutilation of Limbs < [Book 4 - Removal of Thorns]
Chapter 10 - Destruction of Pasture Lands < [Book 3 - Concerning Law]
Chaitanya Bhagavata (by Bhumipati Dāsa)
Verse 1.14.22 < [Chapter 14 - The Lord’s Travel to East Bengal and the Disappearance of Lakṣmīpriyā]
Verse 1.1.61 < [Chapter 1 - Summary of Lord Gaura’s Pastimes]
Verse 3.2.276 < [Chapter 2 - Description of the Lord’s Travel Through Bhuvaneśvara and Other Placesto Jagannātha Purī]