Dict: easton - Beast

easton:

Beast @ This word is used of flocks or herds of grazing animals kjv@Exodus:22:5; kjv@Numbers:20:4 kjv@Numbers:20:8, 11; kjv@Psalms:78:48); of beasts of burden kjv@Genesis:45:17); of eatable beasts kjv@Proverbs:9:2); and of swift beasts or dromedaries kjv@Isaiah:60:6). In the New Testament it is used of a domestic animal as property kjv@Revelation:18:13); as used for food ( kjv@1Corinthians:15:39), for service kjv@Luke:10:34; kjv@Acts:23:24), and for sacrifice kjv@Acts:7:42). When used in contradistinction to man kjv@Psalms:36:6), it denotes a brute creature generally, and when in contradistinction to creeping things kjv@Leviticus:11:2-7 kjv@Leviticus:27:26), a four-footed animal. The Mosaic law required that beasts of labour should have rest on the Sabbath kjv@Exodus:20:10 kjv@Exodus:23:12), and in the Sabbatical year all cattle were allowed to roam about freely, and eat whatever grew in the fields kjv@Exodus:23:11; kjv@Leviticus:25:7). No animal could be castrated kjv@Leviticus:22:24). Animals of different kinds were to be always kept separate kjv@Leviticus:19:19; kjv@Deuteronomy:22:10). Oxen when used in threshing were not to be prevented from eating what was within their reach kjv@Deuteronomy:25:4; kjv@1Corinthians:9:9). This word is used figuratively of an infuriated multitude ( kjv@1Corinthians:15:32; kjv@Acts:19:29; comp. kjv@Psalms:22:12 kjv@Psalms:22:16 kjv@Ecclesiastes:3:18; kjv@Isaiah:11:6-8), and of wicked men ( kjv@2Peter:2:12). The four beasts of kjv@Daniel:7:3 kjv@Daniel:7:17, 23 represent four kingdoms or kings.