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Beast:
This word is used of flocks or herds of grazing animals (Exd 22:5; Num 20:4,8,11; Psa 78:48); of beasts of burden (Gen 45:17); of eatable beasts (Pro 9:2); and of swift beasts or dromedaries (Isa 60:6). In the New Testament it is used of a domestic animal as property (Rev 18:13); as used for food (1Cr 15:39), for service (Luk 10:34; Act 23:24), and for sacrifice (Act 7:42).
When used in contradistinction to man (Psa 36:6), it denotes a brute creature generally, and when in contradistinction to creeping things (Lev 11:2-7; 27:26), a four-footed animal.
The Mosaic law required that beasts of labour should have rest on the Sabbath (Exd 20:10; 23:12), and in the Sabbatical year all cattle were allowed to roam about freely, and eat whatever grew in the fields (Exd 23:11; Lev 25:7). No animal could be castrated (Lev 22:24). Animals of different kinds were to be always kept separate (Lev 19:19; Deu 22:10). Oxen when used in threshing were not to be prevented from eating what was within their reach (Deu 25:4; 1Cr 9:9).
This word is used figuratively of an infuriated multitude (1Cr 15:32; Act 19:29; Psa 22:12,16; Ecc 3:18; Isa 11:6-8), and of wicked men (2Pe 2:12). The four beasts of Dan 7:3, 17, 23 represent four kingdoms or kings.
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