Win-A-Trip Contest Quiz (#2)
Animals of the Bible
Rules
Identify each animal by its common name in Hebrew or English and/or its scientific name. Give at least one biblical citation (Old or New Testament) in which this animal is mentioned.
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(Win-A-Trip Contest Quiz (#1) BR 02:02)
1. Pomegranate (Punica granatum).
“For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of streams, of springs and underground waters, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey…” (Deuteronomy 8:7–8).
Additional biblical passages include: Exodus 28:33, 34; Numbers 13:23; 1 Samuel 14:2; 1 Kings 7:18; Song of Songs 4:3; Joel 1:12.
2. Mustard (Brassica alba).
“The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field; and this is smaller than all other seeds; but when it is full grown, it is larger than the garden plants, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches” (Matthew 13:31–32).
Additional biblical passages include: Matthew 17:20; Mark 4:31; Luke 13:19, 17:6.
3. Carob or locust (Ceratonia siliqua).
“Now John himself had a garment of camel’s hair, and a leather belt about his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey” (Matthew 3:4).
Additional biblical passages include: Mark 1:6; Luke 15:16.
Several readers observed that the word “carob” does not actually appear in the Bible although the “locusts” eaten by John the Baptist in Matthew 3:4 and Mark 1:6 are thought to be carob pods. The ripe brown carob fruit is also called “St. John’s Bread,” identified in Christian tradition with the “wild honey” eaten by John the Baptist in the wilderness because of the drops of honey-like juice contained in the pods. Locust may also mean the insect by the same name; the Hebrew words for the locust insect (hagav) and the carob/locust (haruv) plant differ by only one letter. (The vowels are not written.) Nogah Hareuveni also points out that in Isaiah 1:19 [20] a passage translated “you will be devoured by the sword” (sword = herev) may be read “you will eat carob” (carob = haruv). The Hebrew words for “sword” and “carob” are spelled the same, differing only in the vowels used to pronounce them. If the latter reading is used, Isaiah would be saying that you will eat carob, the food that remains when all else is gone.
4. Tamarisk (Tamarix sp.).
“[Abraham] planted a tamarisk at Beer-Sheba, and invoked there the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God” (Genesis 21:33).
Additional Biblical passages include: 1 Samuel 22:6, 31:13.
Answers were provided by Nogah Hareuveni, director of Neot Kedumim, the Biblical Landscape Reserve in Israel. For further information on biblical plants, see Nature in Our Biblical Heritage and Tree and Shrub in Our Biblical Heritage, both by Nogah Hareuveni. (These books are offered by the BAS mail order bookstore).
Nogah Hareuveni commented about some of the answers to the Plant Quiz: “BR readers are smart” Yes, that’s true. So see the Win-A-Trip Contest Quiz (#2) and try your hand at identifying Animals of the Bible.
Rules
Identify each animal by its common name in Hebrew or English and/or its scientific name. Give at least one biblical citation (Old or New Testament) in which this animal is mentioned.
Send Your answers to:
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