1. Those living creatures hereafter mentioned, whose original is from the earth, and whose habitation is in it.
2. Those tame beasts which are most familiar with and useful to men for food, clothing, or other service. 3. Creeping thing; to wit, of the earth, of a differing kind from those creeping things of the water, Genesis 1:20.
4. The wild beast, as the Hebrew word commonly signifies, and as appears further, because they are distinguished from the tame beasts, here called cattle.