a locust is a type of grasshopper that migrates in huge numbers quickly eating the plants in their path, or a hardwood tree with fragrant white flowers.

The 8th plague sent by God on Pharaoh and Egypt. Exodus 10:1-20
Exodus 10:14 And the locust went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.
Exodus 10:19 And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.

Listed as a clean meat to be eaten.
Leviticus 11:22 Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.

Moses speaking to Israel: Blessings when obeying the Lord, curses when Israel disobeyed the Lord (Deuteronomy 27-28)
Deuteronomy 28:38 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.
Deuteronomy 28:42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.

King Solomon’s prayer for Israel:
1 Kings 8:37 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;

A reminder to Israel of the Plagues sent upon Egypt (Psalm 78:43-51)
Psalm 78:46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.

David’s cry for mercy (Psalm 109:21-26)
Psalm 109:23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

One of the 4 little things on earth that are exceedingly wise:
Proverbs 30:27 The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;

Joel warns Israel of impending judgement.
Joel 1:4 That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.

But obedience will bring Blessing.
Joel 2:25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.

Remember Leviticus 11:22, Locust were good meat for food.
Matthew 3:4, Mark 1:6 And the same John had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.

A repeat of the 8th Plague that God sent to Egypt by Moses.
Revelation 9:3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

Part of the horrors to occur during the Tribulation.
Revelation 9:7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.

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⇛ also see Ant, Grasshopper, Spider

A carnivorous mammal of the dog family with a pointed muzzle and bushy tail, proverbial for its cunning. A cunning or sly person.

Judges 15 is the story of Samson getting even with his father-in-law.
Judges 15:4 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.

Sanballat was not impressed with the wall being built by the Jews (4:1-2) and said even a fox (jackal) could break it down.
Nehemiah 4:3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.

David, fleeing from is enemies cried unto the Lord and vowed that those who sought to destroy his soul, theirs would wind up in Hell (63:9) and their bodies eaten by foxes.
Psalm 63:10 They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.

Song of Solomon 2:15 Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.

Jeremiah’s prayer for Israel to be restored.
Lamentations 5:18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

Just as today, there are many who are false teachers. Israel had their share (13:1-3), cunning and sly.
Ezekiel 13:4 O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.

The Lord Jesus teaching His disciples about His ministry.
Matthew 8:20, Luke 9:58 And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

The Lord Jesus refers to King Herod as “that Fox”.
Luke 13:32 And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.

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A mythical animal typically represented as a horse with a single straight horn projecting from its forehead.

In 1611, when a group of scholars translated the Bible to English, there was no English equivalent for the word unicornis, so they coined the new English word unicorn.

Numbers 23:22 God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.

Numbers 24:8 God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.

Deuteronomy 33:17 His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.

Job 39:9-10 Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?
Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?

Psalm 22:21 Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.

Psalm 29:6 He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.

Psalm 92:10 But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.

Prophecy that God will bring upon all nations (Isaiah 34).
Isaiah 34:7 And the unicorns 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.

Is it possible that scripture is referring to the rhinoceros?

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An eight-legged predatory arachnid with an unsegmented body consisting of a fused head and thorax and a rounded abdomen. Spiders have fangs which inject poison into their prey, and most kinds spin webs in which to capture insects.

One of the 4 little things on earth that are exceedingly wise:
Proverbs 30:28 The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces.

Spiders reside everywhere.

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⇛ also see Ant, Grasshopper, Locust

The serpent is one of the most intriguing animals to be found in the Hebrew Bible. Mentioned 27 times in Old Testament and 8 times in New Testament.

Genesis 3:1-14 The serpent was a subtil (Cunning; artfulness; probably attractive, 4 legged) animal became a snake as part of his punishment.

The Lord Jesus used the serpent in his teaching.
Matthew 7:10 Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
Luke 11:11 If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?

And to describe the form of death He would suffer: Crucifixion.
John 3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:

Paul knew his scripture as he recalled the Genesis account:
2 Corinthians 11:3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

The serpent is revealed by the Apostle John in prophecy:
Revelation 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Revelation 12:14-15 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
Revelation 20:2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,

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Listed among the clean animals.

Deuteronomy 12:15 Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.

Deuteronomy 12:22 Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.

Deuteronomy 14:5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.

Deuteronomy 15:22 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.

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⇛ also see Deer, Hart

The first mentioned of a raven is when Noah sent one forth from the Ark.
Genesis 8:7 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

Listed as among the unclean birds.
Leviticus 11:15 Every raven after his kind;
Deuteronomy 14:14 And every raven after his kind,

The Lord God reminds Job how He cares for all of creation.
Job 38:41 Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.

Even today very black is referred to as raven:
Song of Solomon 5:11 His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.

Prophecy about the Judgements God will bring upon the nations (Isaiah 34).
Isaiah 34:11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; 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.

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Exodus 16:13 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.

Numbers 11:31-32 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 up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.

The Psalmist reminds Israel of God’s care for them.
Psalm 105:40 The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

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Pygarg is an animal mentioned in the Bible as one of the animals permitted for food. The Septuagint translates the Hebrew ḏîšōn (דִּישֹׁן) as pygargos in Koiné Greek (“white-rumped”, from pyge “buttocks” and argo “white”), and the King James Version takes from there its term pygarg.
Listed as among the clean animals.

Deuteronomy 14:5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.

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