Birds: Figurative
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Isaiah 16:2
For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.
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Isaiah 46:11
Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executes my counsel from a far country: yes, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.
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Jeremiah 12:9
My heritage is to me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her; come you, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.
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Ezekiel 39:4
You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you, and all your bands, and the people that is with you: I will give you to the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
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Even Unburied Bodies Will be Raised Again Whatever Befalls them ...
... will ask, Will then the fishes and other animals and carnivorous birds be raised ...
If things which pertain to the body are figurative, why are not those which ...
/.../on the resurrection of the flesh/chapter xxxii even unburied bodies will.htm

Whether Christ was Becomingly Presented in the Temple?
... for Him" just as in His birth He was "wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a
manger" [*Bede on Lk.1]. Nevertheless, these birds have a figurative sense. ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether christ was becomingly presented.htm

Whether a Suitable Cause Can be Assigned for the Ceremonies which ...
... offered up in peace-offerings and sin-offerings, and that nevertheless birds should
not ... as they were intended for Divine worship; and a figurative or mystical ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether a suitable cause can.htm

Whether There was any Reasonable Cause for the Ceremonial ...
... The figurative reason for these things is that all these animals signified certain
sins, in token of which those animals ... Of birds certain kinds were forbidden. ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether there was any reasonable.htm

The Lord's Furnace
... 'As birds flying'"mother birds fluttering over ... glowing earnestness, ardent enthusiasm
and the like, that we are scarcely aware of using figurative language. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture h/the lords furnace.htm

Of the Ark and the Deluge, and that we Cannot Agree with those who ...
... the water, whether the fishes that live submerged in it, or the sea-birds that swim ...
or that at all events they are far from having any figurative reference to ...
//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/city of god/chapter 27 of the ark and.htm

The Second Coming of Christ.
... But this perplexing expression under this theory refers exclusively to the figurative
and not ... is that of a net which suddenly encloses a covey of birds as they ...
/.../mcgarvey/the four-fold gospel/cxiv the second coming of.htm

'Physicians of no Value'
... As Hosea puts it in figurative fashion, Ephraim's discovery of his 'sickness' sent
him in the vain quest for help to the ... Foxes have holes, and the birds of the ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture a/physicians of no value.htm

The Seventh (And Last) vision "On Earth"
... horse, which sword proceedeth out of his mouth: And all the birds were satiated ... this
is not one, nor is it what commentators call "figurative language," that ...
/.../bullinger/commentary on revelation/the seventh and last vision.htm

Chapter vii
... and of all beasts which were not clean and of the birds and of ... make plain the fact
that the heavens poured down torrential rains, the figurative expression is ...
//christianbookshelf.org/leupold/exposition of genesis volume 1/chapter vii.htm

Resources
Is there any special meaning/symbolism to owls in the Bible? | GotQuestions.org

What is theistic evolution? | GotQuestions.org

How did Noah fit all the animals on the Ark? | GotQuestions.org

Birds: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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Birds

Birds are Hostile to Strange Kinds

Birds of Abomination

Birds of Cruel and Rapacious Kings

Birds of Hostile Nations

Birds of People of Different Countries

Birds of Prey

Birds of the Devil and his Spirits

Birds of Unsettled Person

Birds: (Snaring) Death

Birds: (Snaring) Designs of the Wicked

Birds: Appointed for Food

Birds: Cages of

Birds: Called: Birds of the Air

Birds: Called: Feathered Fowl

Birds: Called: Fowls of Heaven

Birds: Called: Fowls of the Air

Birds: Called: Winged Fowl

Birds: Can all be Tamed

Birds: Clean: Cock and Hen

Birds: Clean: Crane

Birds: Clean: Dove

Birds: Clean: Offered in Sacrifice

Birds: Clean: Partridge

Birds: Clean: Pigeon

Birds: Clean: Quail

Birds: Clean: Sparrow

Birds: Clean: Swallow

Birds: Clean: To be Eaten

Birds: Clean: Turtle

Birds: Confinement of, in Cages Alluded To

Birds: Created by God

Birds: Created for the Glory of God

Birds: Creation of, on the Fifth Creative Day

Birds: Differ in Flesh from Beasts and Fishes

Birds: Divine Care of

Birds: Domesticated

Birds: Early Distinguished Into Clean and Clean

Birds: Figurative

Birds: Fly Above the Earth

Birds: Furnished With Claws

Birds: Given As Food to Man

Birds: God Provides For

Birds: Habits of

Birds: Have Each Their Peculiar Note or Song

Birds: Herb of the Field Given As Food To

Birds: Inhabit: Deserted Cities

Birds: Inhabit: Deserts

Birds: Inhabit: Marshes

Birds: Inhabit: Mountains

Birds: Instinct of, Inferior to Man's Reason

Birds: Instinctively Fear Man

Birds: Instincts of

Birds: Lessons of Wisdom to be Learned From

Birds: Make Their Nests in Clefts of Rocks

Birds: Make Their Nests in Deserted Cities

Birds: Make Their Nests in Trees

Birds: Make Their Nests: On the Ground

Birds: Make Their Nests: Under the Roofs of Houses

Birds: Make, and Dwell in Nests

Birds: Man's Dominion Over

Birds: Many Kinds of, Carnivorous

Birds: Many Kinds of, Graniverous

Birds: Many Kinds of, Migratory

Birds: Migrate

Birds: Moses' Law Protected the Mother from Being Taken With the Young

Birds: Names Given To, by Adam

Birds: Nests of

Birds: No Likeness of, to be Made for Worship

Birds: Not to be Eaten With Their Young

Birds: Often Remove from Places Suffering Calamities

Birds: Often Suffered for Man's Sin

Birds: Often Worshipped by Idolaters

Birds: Power Over Given to Man

Birds: Propagated by Eggs

Birds: Rapid Flight of, Alluded To

Birds: Rest on Trees

Birds: Solomon Wrote the History of

Birds: Solomon's Proverbs of

Birds: Songs of, at the Break of Day

Birds: Symbolical

Birds: Taken in Snares or Nets

Birds: The Blood of, not to be Eaten

Birds: The Property of God

Birds: Unclean: Bat

Birds: Unclean: Bittern

Birds: Unclean: Cormorant

Birds: Unclean: Cuckoo

Birds: Unclean: Eagle

Birds: Unclean: Gier Eagle

Birds: Unclean: Glede

Birds: Unclean: Great Owl

Birds: Unclean: Hawk

Birds: Unclean: Heron

Birds: Unclean: Kite

Birds: Unclean: Lapwing

Birds: Unclean: Little Owl

Birds: Unclean: Nighthawk

Birds: Unclean: Not to be Eaten

Birds: Unclean: Osprey

Birds: Unclean: Ossifrage

Birds: Unclean: Ostrich

Birds: Unclean: Owl

Birds: Unclean: Peacock

Birds: Unclean: Pelican

Birds: Unclean: Raven

Birds: Unclean: Stork

Birds: Unclean: Swan

Birds: Unclean: Vulture

Birds: What Species Were Unclean

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