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![[picture: Front Cover]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Beard-BibleSymbols/tn/000-Front-Cover-q85-377x500.jpg "[picture: Front Cover]")
Images from Bible Symbols: The Choicest Passages of God’s Word put in the Fascinating Garb of Pictures by Frank Beard [1842 – 1905] and others; text prepared by Martha Van Marter [born 1839]; Chicago, 1908.
The book is a sort of rebus, in which pictures stand for words, and perhaps help people to remember phrases from the Bible, although not necessarily to understand them or to learn love and tolerance.
Title: Bible Symbols
Published by: The John A. Hertel Co.
City: Chicago, Toronto, Boston
Date: 1908
Total items: 37
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: The Ospray and the Glede]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Beard-BibleSymbols/wm/big/054-deuteronomy-xiv-detail-ospray-and-glede-q85-185x200.jpg "[picture: The Ospray and the Glede]")
The Ospray and the Glede taken from an illustration of the list of birds that Jews were forbidden to eat, some 2500 years ago; full illustration. [more...] [$]
![[picture: 55.---As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young,...]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Beard-BibleSymbols/wm/big/055-deuteronomy-xxxii-eagle-and-ossifrage-nest-q80-143x200.jpg "[picture: 55.---As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young,...]")
55.—As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young,...
The complete pair of verses from Deuteronomy chapter 32 verses 11 and 12, using the King James Bible of 1611, read as follows: [more...] [$]
![[picture: The Little Owl and the Great Owl]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Beard-BibleSymbols/wm/big/054-deuteronomy-xiv-detail-little-owl-and-great-owl-q85-197x200.jpg "[picture: The Little Owl and the Great Owl]")
The Little Owl and the Great Owl
The Little Owl and the Great Owl taken from an illustration of the list of birds that Jews were forbidden to eat, some 2500 years ago; full illustration. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Egrets in a Nest, from the book of Deuteronomy ch. 32 v. 11]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Beard-BibleSymbols/wm/big/055-deuteronomy-xxxii-11-detail-3-young-egrets-in-nest-q75-246x200.jpg "[picture: Egrets in a Nest, from the book of Deuteronomy ch. 32 v. 11]")
Egrets in a Nest, from the book of Deuteronomy ch. 32 v. 11
A bird’s nest, with egrets (baby eagles) in it. [$]
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![[picture: Bare Feet of God, from p. 69]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Beard-BibleSymbols/wm/big/069-detail-2-his-feet-q85-214x200.jpg "[picture: Bare Feet of God, from p. 69]")
