Stork in the Bible

Forbidden as food

• Leviticus 11:19 And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.

⇒Bible Encyclopedia for STORK.

Nest of, in fir trees

• Psalm 104:17 Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.

⇒Definition of stork

Migratory

• Jeremiah 8:7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.

⇒See also McClintock and Strong Cyclopedia for Stork.

FIGURATIVE

• Zechariah 5:9 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven.