Bird Related
Verses from the Bible (KJV)
There are several references to birds in the bible. The list below, shows the various types of birds referenced in the bible. Below the list is a another comprehensive list of relevant verses from the King James Version of the bible. You can click on the [wiki] link to find out more about these birds or click on the bible verses to look up the verse at Blue Letter Bible.
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| Genesis 7:14 |
They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. |
| Genesis 8:7 |
And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. |
| Genesis 8:8 |
Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; |
| Genesis 8:9 |
But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters [were] on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark. |
| Genesis 8:10 |
And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; |
| Genesis 8:11 |
And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth [was] an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. |
| Genesis 8:12 |
And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more. |
| Genesis 15:9 |
And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon. |
| Leviticus 11:13 |
And these [are they which] ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they [are] an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, |
| Leviticus 11:14 |
And the vulture, and the kite after his kind; |
| Leviticus 11:15 |
Every raven after his kind; |
| Leviticus 11:16 |
And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, |
| Leviticus 11:17 |
And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great , |
| Leviticus 11:18 |
And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier owl, |
| Leviticus 11:19 |
And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat. |
| Leviticus 12:6 |
And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest: |
| Leviticus 14:6 |
As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird [that was] killed over the running water: |
| Leviticus 14:7 |
And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field. |
| Leviticus 14:51 |
And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times: |
| Leviticus 14:52 |
And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet: |
| Leviticus 14:53 |
But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean. |
| Numbers 16:30 |
But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that [appertain] unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD. |
| Numbers 16:34 |
And all Israel that [were] round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up [also]. |
| Deuteronomy 14:12 |
But these [are they] of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, |
| Deuteronomy 14:13 |
And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind, |
| Deuteronomy 14:14 |
And every raven after his kind, |
| Deuteronomy 14:15 |
And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, |
| Deuteronomy 14:16 |
The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan, |
| Deuteronomy 14:17 |
And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant, |
| Deuteronomy 14:18 |
And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat. |
| Deuteronomy 22:6 |
If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, [whether they be] young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young: |
| Deuteronomy 28:49 |
The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, [as swift] as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; |
| Deuteronomy 32:11 |
As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: |
| 1 Samuel 26:20 |
Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains. |
| 2 Samuel 20:19 |
I [am one of them that are] peaceable [and] faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD? |
| 2 Samuel 20:20 |
And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy. |
| 2 Kings 6:25 |
And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was [sold] for fourscore [pieces] of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five [pieces] of silver. |
| Job 7:19 |
How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? |
| Job 9:26 |
They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle [that] hasteth to the prey. |
| Job 20:18 |
That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow [it] down: according to [his] substance [shall] the restitution [be], and he shall not rejoice [therein]. |
| Job 28:7 |
[There is] a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen: |
| Job 38:41 |
Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat. |
| Job 39:26 |
Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, [and] stretch her wings toward the south? |
| Job 39:27 |
Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high? |
| Job 41:5 |
Wilt thou play with him as [with] a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens? |
| Psalms 11:1 |
[[To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David.]] In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee [as] a bird to your mountain? |
| Psalms 21:9 |
Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them. |
| Psalms 55:6 |
And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! [for then] would I fly away, and be at rest. |
| Psalms 56:1 |
[[To the chief Musician upon Jonathelemrechokim, Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath.]] Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me. |
| Psalms 56:2 |
Mine enemies would daily swallow [me] up: for [they be] many that fight against me, O thou most High. |
| Psalms 57:3 |
He shall send from heaven, and save me [from] the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth. |
| Psalms 68:13 |
Though ye have lien among the pots, [yet shall ye be as] the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold. |
| Psalms 69:15 |
Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. |
| Psalms 74:19 |
O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude [of the wicked]: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever. |
| Psalms 84:3 |
Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, [even] thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God. |
| Psalms 102:6 |
I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. |
| Psalms 102:7 |
I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top. |
| Psalms 103:5 |
Who satisfieth thy mouth with good [things; so that] thy youth is renewed like the eagle's. |
| Psalms 104:17 |
Where the birds make their nests: [as for] the stork, the fir trees [are] her house. |
| Psalms 124:7 |
Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped. |
| Proverbs 1:12 |
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: |
| Proverbs 1:17 |
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. |
| Proverbs 6:5 |
Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand [of the hunter], and as a bird from the hand of the fowler. |
| Proverbs 7:23 |
Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it [is] for his life. |
| Proverbs 23:5 |
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for [riches] certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. |
| Proverbs 26:2 |
As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come. |
| Proverbs 27:8 |
As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so [is] a man that wandereth from his place. |
| Proverbs 30:19 |
The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid. |
| Ecclesiastes 10:12 |
The words of a wise man's mouth [are] gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself. |
| Ecclesiastes 10:20 |
Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter. |
| Ecclesiastes 12:4 |
And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low; |
| Canticles 2:14 |
O my dove, [that art] in the clefts of the rock, in the secret [places] of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet [is] thy voice, and thy countenance [is] comely. |
| Canticles 5:2 |
I sleep, but my heart waketh: [it is] the voice of my beloved that knocketh, [saying], Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, [and] my locks with the drops of the night. |
| Canticles 5:11 |
His head [is as] the most fine gold, his locks [are] bushy, [and] black as a raven. |
| Canticles 6:9 |
My dove, my undefiled is [but] one; she [is] the [only] one of her mother, she [is] the choice [one] of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; [yea], the queens and the concubines, and they praised her. |
| Isaiah 14:23 |
I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts. |
| Isaiah 16:2 |
For it shall be, [that], as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, [so] the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon. |
| Isaiah 25:8 |
He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken [it]. |
| Isaiah 34:11 |
But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. |
| Isaiah 34:14 |
The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest. |
| Isaiah 34:15 |
There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate. |
| Isaiah 38:14 |
Like a crane [or] a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail [with looking] upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me. |
| Isaiah 46:11 |
Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken [it], I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed [it], I will also do it. |
| Jeremiah 8:7 |
Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD. |
| Jeremiah 12:9 |
Mine heritage [is] unto me [as] a speckled bird, the birds round about [are] against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour. |
| Jeremiah 17:11 |
[As] the partridge sitteth [on eggs], and hatcheth [them] not; [so] he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool. |
| Jeremiah 48:28 |
O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove [that] maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth. |
| Jeremiah 48:40 |
For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab. |
| Jeremiah 49:16 |
Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, [and] the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD. |
| Jeremiah 49:22 |
Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. |
| Lamentations 3:52 |
Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause. |
| Ezekiel 1:10 |
As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle. |
| Ezekiel 10:14 |
And every one had four faces: the first face [was] the face of a cherub, and the second face [was] the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle. |
| Ezekiel 17:3 |
And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar: |
| Ezekiel 17:7 |
There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation. |
| Daniel 7:4 |
The first [was] like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it. |
| Hosea 7:11 |
Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria. |
| Hosea 8:1 |
[Set] the trumpet to thy mouth. [He shall come] as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law. |
| Hosea 8:7 |
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up. |
| Hosea 9:11 |
[As for] Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception. |
| Hosea 11:11 |
They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will place them in their houses, saith the LORD. |
| Amos 3:5 |
Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin [is] for him? shall [one] take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all? |
| Amos 8:4 |
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, |
| Obadiah 1:4 |
Though thou exalt [thyself] as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD. |
| Obadiah 1:16 |
For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, [so] shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been. |
| Jonah 1:17 |
Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. |
| Micah 1:16 |
Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee. |
| Habakkuk 1:8 |
Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle [that] hasteth to eat. |
| Zephaniah 2:14 |
And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; [their] voice shall sing in the windows; desolation [shall be] in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work. |
| Zechariah 5:9 |
Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind [was] in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven. |
| Matthew 3:16 |
And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: |
| Matthew 23:24 |
[Ye] blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. |
| Matthew 26:34 |
Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. |
| Matthew 26:75 |
And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly. |
| Mark 1:10 |
And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him: |
| Mark 14:30 |
And Jesus saith unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this day, [even] in this night, before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice. |
| Mark 14:72 |
And the second time the cock crew. And Peter called to mind the word that Jesus said unto him, Before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice. And when he thought thereon, he wept. |
| Luke 3:22 |
And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased. |
| Luke 22:34 |
And he said, I tell thee, Peter, the cock shall not crow this day, before that thou shalt thrice deny that thou knowest me. |
| Luke 22:61 |
And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. |
| John 1:32 |
And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him. |
| John 13:38 |
Jesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for my sake? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, The cock shall not crow, till thou hast denied me thrice. |
| Revelation 4:7 |
And the first beast [was] like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast [was] like a flying eagle. |
| Revelation 12:14 |
And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. |
| Revelation 18:2 |
And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. |
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