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Concise Bible Dictionary: B
By:
George A. Morrish
Narrator:
Chris Genthree
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The
atalleph
, νυκτερίς, “night bird,” is the animal well known as the bat: it was in the law forbidden to be eaten (
Lev. 11:19
19
And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat. (Leviticus 11:19)
;
Deut. 14:18
18
And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat. (Deuteronomy 14:18)
).
There are several species found in Palestine: they inhabit the tombs and caves, and are familiar with darkness. Where there are many the effluvium from them is very noisome. Their habitation becomes a fit emblem of darkness and offensiveness, a place to which men will cast their idols of gold and silver when Jehovah arises to deal with the earth (
Isa. 2:20
20
In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats; (Isaiah 2:20)
).
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