Understand the language of Scripture Explore idioms, metaphors, euphemisms, hyperbole, and other figures of speech in clear, everyday language. A dead person is described as sleeping because the body rests and death will not have the final word. To die and join the generations of ancestors. Temptation, enemies, death, or judgment are pictured as traps set to capture a person. A person lost courage and became afraid or discouraged. Ministry requires single-minded endurance, lawful discipline, and patient labor before reward. The phrase can simply mean a human being or mortal person. The beloved’s eyes are praised as gentle, beautiful, lively, or captivating. The beloved’s dark, flowing hair is compared with a flock moving down a hillside. Covenant love is relentless, powerful, and not easily overcome. The beloved’s neck is praised for dignity, strength, and stately beauty. The beloved’s teeth are praised as white, orderly, paired, and complete. The greatest or finest song. The phrase describes thoroughly wicked, lawless, or worthless people. A “son” or “child” of something is a person marked by that quality, destiny, group, or way of life. The word “soul” can refer to a whole living person, a person’s life, or the person himself. The proverb claimed that children suffered for their parents’ wrongdoing. Choices planted according to sinful desire produce corruption, while Spirit-directed choices produce eternal-life fruit. A small fault in another person compared with a much greater fault in oneself. The Holy Spirit is God’s present pledge that He will complete the promised redemption and inheritance. God gives the Holy Spirit abundantly and openly to His people. Praise, generosity, obedience, service, and yielded lives are offerings acceptable to God through Christ. The great city is morally compared with Sodom and oppressively compared with Egypt. A person remains loyal, steady, and resistant under pressure. A person or people stubbornly refused to submit, turn, or obey.Biblical Expressions
Sleep as a figure for death
Sleep with one’s fathers
Snare/net/pit as hidden danger
Soft/faint heart
Soldier, athlete, and farmer
Son of man means a human being
Song of Solomon: eyes like doves
Song of Solomon: hair like a flock of goats
Song of Solomon: love strong as death
Song of Solomon: neck like tower
Song of Solomon: teeth like shorn sheep
Song of Songs
Sons of Belial / worthless men
Sons/children of a quality
Soul means person/life
Sour grapes set children’s teeth on edge
Sow to flesh or Spirit
Speck and beam/log in the eye
Spirit as guarantee/down payment
Spirit poured out
Spiritual sacrifices
Spiritually called Sodom and Egypt
Stand firm
Stiff neck
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