Dict: easton - Bird

Bird @ Birds are divided in the Mosaic law into two classes,

(1) the clean kjv@Leviticus:1:14-17 kjv@Leviticus:5:7-10 kjv@Leviticus:14:4 -7), which were offered in sacrifice; and

(2) the unclean kjv@Leviticus:11:13-20). When offered in sacrifice, they were not divided as other victims were kjv@Genesis:15:10). They are mentioned also as an article of food kjv@Deuteronomy:14:11). The art of snaring wild birds is referred to kjv@Psalms:124:7; kjv@Proverbs:1:17 kjv@Proverbs:7:23; kjv@Jeremiah:5:27). Singing birds are mentioned in kjv@Psalms:104:12; kjv@Ecclesiastes:12:4. Their timidity is alluded to kjv@Hosea:11:11). The reference in kjv@Psalms:84:3 to the swallow and the sparrow may be only a comparison equivalent to, "What her house is to the sparrow, and her nest to the swallow, that thine altars are to my soul."