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Over 120 species of animals are mentioned in the Bible, ordered alphabetically in this article by English vernacular name.Animals mentioned in the Old Testament will be listed with their Hebrew name, while those mentioned in the New Testament will be listed with their Greek names.
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Animals of the Bible is a book illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop with text compiled by Helen Dean Fish from the Bible. Released by J. B. Lippincott Company , it was the first recipient of the Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1938.
A re'em, also reëm (Hebrew: רְאֵם, romanized: rəʾēm), is an animal mentioned nine times in the Hebrew Bible. [ note 1 ] It has been translated as " unicorn " in the Latin Vulgate , King James Version , and in some Christian Bible translations as " oryx " (which was accepted as the referent in Modern Hebrew ), [ citation needed ] "wild ...
Henry Baker Tristram (1867) proposed that the pygarg was the Saharan antelope addax and described it as "a large animal, over 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet [1 m] high at the shoulder, and, with its gently-twisted horns, 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet [80 cm] feet long. Its colour is pure white, with the exception of a short black mane, and a tinge of tawny on the ...
Once the liquor was distilled, drivers called "runners" or "bootleggers" smuggled moonshine liquor across the region in cars specially modified for speed and load-carrying capacity. [42] The cars were ordinary on the outside but modified with souped-up engines, extra interior room, and heavy-duty shock absorbers to support the weight of the ...
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A Ptolemaic inscription from the Khonsu Temple in Thebes describes Khonsu and the sun god as bulls crossing the sky and meeting in the east as "the two illuminators of the heavens". This meeting of the two bulls is theorized to either refer to the arrival of the full moon or the simultaneous presence of the sun and moon in the sky.