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Bat — עֲטַלֵּף (ʿăṭallēp̲) in Hebrew; one of the unclean flying animals (per Leviticus 11:19; Deuteronomy 14:18). There are 14 species of bat in the Holy Land. Bear — The bear (דֹּב dōb̲) spoken of in the Bible is the Syrian brown bear, which is now extinct in the Levant.
Despite being listed among the birds by the Bible, bats are not birds, and are in fact mammals (because the Hebrew Bible distinguishes animals into four general categories—beasts of the land, flying animals, creatures which crawl upon the ground, and animals which dwell in water—not according to modern scientific classification).
These appear as a lion, an ox, a man, and an eagle, much as in Ezekiel but in a different order. They have six wings, whereas Ezekiel's four living creatures are described as having four. [5] In verse 6, they are said to have "eyes all over, front and back", suggesting that they are alert and knowledgeable, that nothing escapes their notice. [5]
The Bible is a collection of canonical sacred texts of Judaism and Christianity.Different religious groups include different books within their canons, in different orders, and sometimes divide or combine books, or incorporate additional material into canonical books.
The Catholic Bible contains 73 books; the additional seven books are called the Apocrypha and are considered canonical by the Catholic Church, but not by other Christians. When citing the Latin Vulgate , chapter and verse are separated with a comma, for example "Ioannem 3,16"; in English Bibles chapter and verse are separated with a colon, for ...
Rather, the religious categories are land-dwelling animals (land mammals, flightless birds, and land reptiles, etc.), flying animals (birds, insects, flying mammals such as bats), and given that each of these religious categories of animals includes species of at least two or more of each scientific categories of animals, there is no general ...
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Bats are flying mammals of the order Chiroptera (/ k aɪ ˈ r ɒ p t ər ə /). [a] With their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals capable of true and sustained flight. Bats are more agile in flight than most birds, flying with their very long spread-out digits covered with a thin membrane or patagium.