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Fowl

From: Boyd's Bible Dictionary: F By: James P. Boyd

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(flying). The Hebrew original embraces birds in general (Gen. 1:20²⁰And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. (Genesis 1:20); 1 Kings 4:23²³Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl. (1 Kings 4:23)). The Greek provides the domestic limitation (Luke 12:24²⁴Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls? (Luke 12:24)).

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