Owl

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

(A carnivorous bird)

Unclean

• Leviticus 11:16–17 the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl,
• Deuteronomy 14:16 the little owl, the great owl, the white owl,

In R. V. ostrich is substituted

• Leviticus 11:16 the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,
• Deuteronomy 14:15 the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,
• Job 30:29 I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.
• Isaiah 13:21 But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about.
• Isaiah 34:11 The desert owl and screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and raven will dwell in it. The LORD will stretch out over Edom a measuring line of chaos and a plumb line of destruction.
• Isaiah 34:13 Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches.
• Isaiah 43:20 The beasts of the field will honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I provide water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My chosen people.
• Jeremiah 50:39 So the desert creatures and hyenas will live there and ostriches will dwell there. It will never again be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation.
• Micah 1:8 Because of this I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and mourn like an ostrich.