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Nave Topical Bible
• Symbols and Similitudes
Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
• Symbolism
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American Church Dictionary
• Symbol
Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
• Numbers, Symbolic Meaning of
• Color, Symbolic Meaning of
Charles Buck Dictionary
• Symbol
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Symbol
• Number Systems and Number Symbolism
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Symbol
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Symbols
• Numbers As Symbols
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Symbols, Eucharistic
• Symbols of the Sacraments
• Symbols of the Evangelists
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Webster Dictionary
• Symbolizing
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Beast As a Symbol.
• Bethlehem As a Symbol
• Bird (Symbol)
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Symbolism
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Birds (In Symbolism)
• Early Symbols of the Eucharist
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The Jewish Encyclopedia
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(from σύν and βάλλω, to throw together, i.e. by comparison), an abstract or compendium, a sign or representation of something moral, by the figures or-properties of natural things. Heice symbols are of various kinds, as hieroglyphics, types, enigmas, parables, fables, etc. (q.v. severally). See Lancaster, Dict. of Scripture Symbols; Bicheno, Symbolical Vocabulary, in his Signs of the Times; Faber, On the Prophecies; Jones [W.], Works, vol. 4; Wemyss, Clavis Symbolica; Mills, Sac. Symbology (Edinb. 1853); Fairbairn, Typol. of Script.; Brit. and For. Evan. Rev. 1843, p. 395. (See SYMBOLISM).