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For many years, the Greek: ἀκρίδες (akrides) was interpreted as referring not to locusts, the insect, but rather to the seed pods of the carob tree. But the Greek word is not used this way, [8] and this notion is generally rejected today. [9] Locusts are mentioned 22 other times in the Bible and all other mentions quite clearly refer to ...
"Ape" in the KJV referred to what is called an Old World monkey today. "Apes" in the modern colloquial sense, were known of only later. Asp — This word, which occurs eleven times in D.V., stands for four Hebrew names: פֶתֶן p̲et̲en (Deuteronomy 32:33; Job 20:14 and 20:16; 16; Isaiah 11:8).
Catholics use images, such as the crucifix, the cross, in religious life and pray using depictions of saints. They also venerate images and liturgical objects by kissing, bowing, and making the sign of the cross. They point to the Old Testament patterns of worship followed by the Hebrew people as examples of how certain places and things used ...
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[3] [4] To them, the insect was a symbol of Khepri, the early morning manifestation of the sun god Ra, from an analogy between the beetle's behaviour of rolling a ball of dung across the ground and Khepri's task of rolling the sun across the sky. [5] They accordingly held the species to be sacred. The Egyptians also observed young beetles ...
[4]: 85 Her work helped Petiver complete his British insect catalogue Gazophylacium naturae et artis, and he credited her in the text. [2] One of the first local lists of British insects, compiled on the insects of Bristol, is attributed to Glanville. [4]: 84 Glanville also reared her own moths and butterflies at home.
Peter's vision of a sheet with animals, the vision painted by Domenico Fetti (1619) Illustration from Treasures of the Bible by Henry Davenport Northrop, 1894. According to the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 10, Saint Peter had a vision of a vessel (Greek: σκεῦος, skeuos; "a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners") full of animals being ...
Insects have appeared in mythology around the world from ancient times. Among the insect groups featuring in myths are the bee, fly, butterfly, cicada, dragonfly, praying mantis and scarab beetle. Insect myths may present the origins of a people, or of their skills such as finding honey.