Pelican Christian Dream Symbol

Pelican Christian Dream Symbol
A Christian Symbol or Icon such as the Pelican is an object, character, figure, or color used to represent abstract ideas or concepts - a picture that represents an idea.

A Christian symbol or icon is an image or symbolic representation such as the Pelican with sacred significance which can manifest itself in a dream.

Christian symbols and symbolism which can appear in a dream often contain a moral or religious lesson or allegory as explained in the Biblical and Christian Dream Dictionary.

Pelican Christian Dream Symbol - Bible Quotes and References
The following information provides details of Biblical and Christian Dream Symbols, their meaning, interpretation, definition with Biblical quotes and references in the bible which will help with Christian Interpretation of Symbols.

Pelican Christian Dream Symbol - Bible Quotes and References
Dream Interpretation Dictionary

The Pelican as a Christian Symbol represents atonement and charity. 'Pelican in her piety' in heraldry and symbolical art, is a representation of a pelican in the act of wounding her breast in order to nourish her young with her blood a practice fabulously attributed to the bird. The pelican cutting open its own breast represents Christ's death on the cross, and the shedding of his blood to revive us and therefore adopted as a symbol of the Redeemer and of charity. An explanation of this is that the pelican's bill has a crimson red tip and the contrast of this red tip against the white breast probably gave rise to the tradition that the bird tore her own breast to feed her young with her blood.

The following reference to the pelican is in the Bible:

Pelican: (Heb. kaath , sometimes translated "cormorant," as (Isaiah 34:11; Zephaniah 2:14) though in the margin correctly referred to as "pelican"

Leviticus 11:13-18: The law avoid "the birds you are to detest and not eat because thy are detestible".

Leviticus 11:17-18 - 'Laws about Animals for Food', the following 'Avoid the Unclean'
: and the little owl and the cormorant and the great owl, 18 and the white owl and the pelican and the carrion vulture.

Pelican Christian Dream Symbol - Bible Quotes and References
Dream Interpretation Dictionary