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Woodlice are terrestrial isopods in the suborder Oniscidea. Their name is derived from being often found in old wood, [2] and from louse, a parasitic insect, ...
Philoscia muscorum, the common striped woodlouse [2] or fast woodlouse, [3] is a common European woodlouse. It is widespread in Europe , the British Isles and is found from southern Scandinavia to Ukraine and Greece . [ 4 ]
Beetle, given by A.V. (Leviticus 11:22) as an equivalent for Hebrew, árbéh (אַרְבֶּה), does not meet the requirements of the context: "Hath the legs behind longer wherewith it hoppeth upon the earth", any more than the bruchus of D.V., some species of locust, Locusta migratoria being very likely intended.
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 ...
Plants of the Bible, Missouri Botanical Garden; Project "Bibelgarten im Karton" (biblical garden in a cardboard box) of a social and therapeutic horticultural group (handicapped persons) named "Flowerpower" from Germany; List of biblical gardens in Europe; Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Plants in the Bible" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York ...
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: 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. The World English Bible translates the passage as: Now John himself wore clothing made of camel's hair, with a leather belt around his waist.
The hyrax, for chewing the cud without having cloven hooves; [2] [3] as the hyrax was not known to early English translators, the Hebrew term for this animal, שפן (shapan), has been interpreted in older English versions of the Bible as coney (rabbit, hare), a name with clear connections to words such as the Spanish conejo (rabbit).
They only eat meat of a herbivore with split hooves and birds without a crop and without webbed feet; they also do not eat shellfish of any kind, and they only eat fish with scales. Any other animal is considered unclean and not suitable for eating. All vegetables, fruits and nuts are allowed. [23]