What's the only domestic animal not mentioned in the bible?

Answer 1

The cat.

Edit:

As someone who reads/writes/speaks Hebrew, and went to Yeshiva as a child I can definitely state that the word Baruch (actually read as Ba-rooch not Barukh - that is a Hebrew to English translation mishap that has altered the words' meaning) means blessing.

Answer 2

Most people would say "cat" however, this is debatable.

Cat. — Mention of this animal occurs only once in the Bible, namely Bar., vi, 21. The original text of Baruch being lost, we possess no indication as to what the Hebrew name of the cat may have been. Possibly there was not any; for although the cat was very familiar to the Egyptians, it seems to have been altogether unknown to the Jews, as well as to the Assyrians and Babylonians, even to the Greeks and Romans before the conquest of Egypt. These and other reasons have led some commentators to believe that the word cat, in the above cited place of Baruch, might not unlikely stand for another name now impossible to restore.

6:21. Owls, and swallows, and other birds fly upon their bodies, and upon their heads, and cats in like manner.
Supra corpus eorum et supra caput volant noctuae et hirundines et aves etiam similiter et cattae

Here is a list of animals that ARE in the bible:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_animals_in_the_Bible

I don't think there is a domesticated animal NOT mentioned in the bible from the above findings.

Answer 3

Llama and alpaca


These are the only domesticated animals originating outside the regions the bible covers.

Answer 4

I've read the Bible a few times, and I don't recall seeing anything to do with ferrets. And yes, I believe the are domesticated because I've read they've been used by cable and phone companies to run wires thru small holes.

Answer 5

Martha Stewart.

Answer 6

i don't know but saint Francis love animals

Answer 7

Elephant? I don't remember any dogs either

Answer 8

ROSIE O'DONNELL