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Pictures from Wood’s Bible Animals, illustrated by Keyl, Wood and E. A. Smith; engraved by G. Pearson, by the Rev. J. G. Wood, M.A., F.L.S., Etc., J. W. Lyon & Co., Guelph, Ontario, 1877.
Title: Bible Animals
Published by: J. W. Lyon & Company, Publishers
City: Guelph, Ontario
Date: 1877
Total items: 5
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: The Bittern]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wood-BibleAnimals/wm/big/533-bittern-172x200.jpg "[picture: The Bittern]")
“I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools for water” – Isa. xiv. 29.
In the account of the hedgehog, page 120, it has been mentioned that the Hebrew word Kippod, which has been rendered in the Authorized Version [of the Bible, published in 1611] as “Bittern,” is in all probability the Syrian hedgehog, and that the Jewish Bible accepts that rendering without even affixing the mark of doubt to the word. As, however, some writers on the subject still adhere to the more familiar rendering, a short account will be given of the Bittern (Botauris stellaris). (p. 532)
My New English Bible has ‘Bustard’ in Isaiah xiv 23, the passage cited in the text (and incorrectly given as verse 29 in the caption). It makes more sense to me to [more...] [$]
![[picture: Bible Animals Title Page]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wood-BibleAnimals/wm/big/000-Title-Page-128x200.jpg "[picture: Bible Animals Title Page]")
Pictures from Wood’s Bible Animals, illustrated by Keyl, Wood and E. A. Smith; engraved by G. Pearson, by the Rev. J. G. Wood, M.A., F.L.S., Etc., J. W. Lyon & Co., Guelph, Ontario, 1877.
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![[picture: The Eagle.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wood-BibleAnimals/wm/big/418-the-eagle-q85-119x200.jpg "[picture: The Eagle.]")
![[picture: Frontispiece: The Ostrich.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wood-BibleAnimals/wm/big/000-frontispiece-ostrich-q75-118x200.jpg "[picture: Frontispiece: The Ostrich.]")
![[picture: The Owl]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wood-BibleAnimals/wm/big/443-the-owl-q75-321x200.jpg "[picture: The Owl]")
