Tetrapous denotes animals grouped as having four feet, listed alongside birds, reptiles, and other creatures.

The term designates a class of animals characterized in the verses as four-footed, whether listed with reptiles and birds in Acts 10:12 and Acts 11:6 or included among creature-images in Romans 1:23.

1. Animals classified as four-footed · dominant

   In Acts 10:12 and Acts 11:6, the neuter plural forms occur in lists of animals alongside reptiles and birds; the APB renders the clauses with “four-footed animals.” In Romans 1:23, the genitive plural occurs in a sequence of images of human, birds, four-footed creatures, and reptiles; the APB renders “four-footed creatures.”

   Acts 10:12Acts 11:6Romans 1:23

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term as “four-footed animals” in Acts 10:12 and Acts 11:6 and as “four-footed creatures” in Romans 1:23. These are translation renderings of whole clauses.