Topic
Stork
Passages from across the Bible
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From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index.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.
Forbidden as food
- Leviticus 11:19 the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
Nest of, in fir trees
- Psalm 104:17 where the birds build their nests; the stork makes her home in the cypresses.
Migratory
- Jeremiah 8:7 Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.
Figurative
- Zechariah 5:9 Then I lifted up my eyes and saw two women approaching, with the wind in their wings. Their wings were like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between heaven and earth.
Word study: the Hebrew and Greek words behind “stork” →
Scripture text: Berean Standard Bible.