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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 Stork and the Heron]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Beard-BibleSymbols/wm/big/054-deuteronomy-xiv-detail-stork-and-heron-q85-303x200.jpg "[picture: The Stork and the Heron]")
The Stork and the Heron taken from an illustration of the list of birds that Jews were forbidden to eat, some 2500 years ago; full illustration. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Fowl of the air, from p. 69]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Beard-BibleSymbols/wm/big/069-detail-6-cockerel-and-chicken-q85-248x200.jpg "[picture: Fowl of the air, from p. 69]")
![[picture: The Lawing and the Bat]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Beard-BibleSymbols/wm/big/054-deuteronomy-xiv-detail-lapwing-and-bat-q85-304x200.jpg "[picture: The Lawing and the Bat]")
The Lawing and the Bat taken from an illustration of the list of birds that Jews were forbidden to eat, some 2500 years ago; full illustration. Today bats are not really considered to be birds. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Money Chest: The Treasurey (Coloured version)]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Beard-BibleSymbols/wm/big/183-money-chest-coloured-q60-284x200.jpg "[picture: Money Chest: The Treasurey (Coloured version)]")
Money Chest: The Treasurey (Coloured version)
I coloured a copy of the Money Chest: The Treasury to make the pile of coins really gold (well, yellow) and the wood be brown. [more...] [$]
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![[picture: Sheep, from p. 69]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Beard-BibleSymbols/wm/big/069-detail-3-all-the-sheep-q85-463x200.jpg "[picture: Sheep, from p. 69]")
