Dictionaries :: Animal

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Animal:

an organized living creature endowed with sensation. The Levitical law divided animals into clean and unclean, although the distinction seems to have existed before the Flood (Gen 7:2). The clean could be offered in sacrifice and eaten. All animals that had not cloven hoofs and did not chew the cud were unclean. The list of clean and unclean quadrupeds is set forth in the Levitical law (Deu 14:3-20; Lev 11).

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Animal:

an'-i-mal: See under the various names and also the general article on ZOOLOGY.