Creeping Animal

A general term for reptiles, including snakes and lizards.

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See Animals (Adder; Asp; Gecko; Lizard; Snake).

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Habits, distribution, and how translators render the term across languages.

Key References

Leviticus 5:2

Or if a person touches anything unclean—whether the carcass of any unclean wild animal or livestock or crawling creature—even if he is unaware of it, he is unclean and guilty.

Deuteronomy 32:24

They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.

Romans 1:23

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

All Scripture References (4)

Acts (2)
Acts 10:12

It contained all kinds of four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth, as well as birds of the air.

Acts 11:6

I looked at it closely and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles, and birds of the air.

Romans (1)
Romans 1:23

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

James (1)
James 3:7

All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and creatures of the sea are being tamed and have been tamed by man,