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Lizard — Immense is the number of these reptiles in Israel; no less than 44 species are found there, Among those mentioned in the Bible we may cite: The Letã'ah, general name of the lizard, applied especially to the common lizard, the green lizard, the blindworm, etc.; the chõmét, or sand lizard;
The word nephesh occurs 754 times in the Hebrew Bible. The first four times nephesh is used in the Bible, it is used exclusively to describe animals: Gen 1:20 (sea life), Gen 1:21 (great sea life), Gen 1:24 (land creatures), Gen 1:30 (birds and land creatures). At Gen 2:7 nephesh is used as description of man.
More significantly, many of the animals mentioned in the Bible are now extinct in Israel due to over-hunting, destruction of natural habitats by rapid construction and development, illegal poisoning by farmers, and low birth rate. [14] Zoo planners decided to branch beyond strictly biblical animals and include worldwide endangered species as ...
The land of Israel once contained a greater variety of mammals, however in recent times many mammals such as the European water vole, the Asiatic cheetah and the Caucasian squirrel went locally extinct. The largest predator in Israel was the Arabian leopard which is now also believed to be extinct [3] due to the
Personification, the attribution of human form and characteristics to abstract concepts such as nations, emotions and natural forces like seasons and the weather, is a literary device found in many ancient texts, including the Hebrew Bible and Christian New Testament. Personification is often part of allegory, parable and metaphor in the Bible. [1]
The Canaan Dog (Hebrew: כלב כנעני; Arabic: كلب كنعاني) is a dog breed developed in the early 20th century [3] [4] from semiwild pariah dogs that were the descendants of animals present in the region since biblical times. [2] It can be found in Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, [5] and the Sinai Peninsula.
The concept of an immaterial soul separate from and surviving the body is common today but according to modern scholars, it was not found in ancient Hebrew beliefs. [1] The word nephesh never means an immortal soul [ 27 ] or an incorporeal part of the human being [ 28 ] that can survive death of the body as the spirit of the dead.
No serpent, no animal of any kind, is called Satan, or Belzebub, or Devil, in the Pentateuch." [18] 20th-century scholars such as W. O. E. Oesterley (1921) were cognizant of the differences between the role of the Edenic serpent in the Hebrew Bible and its connections with the "ancient serpent" in the New Testament. [19]