Understand the language of Scripture Explore idioms, metaphors, euphemisms, hyperbole, and other figures of speech in clear, everyday language. God’s people are set apart to approach Him, proclaim His excellencies, and offer acceptable service through Christ. God’s people belong to truth and should visibly reflect holy conduct and witness. Believers are being built together into a spiritual house because they are joined to Christ, the living cornerstone. Disciples should preserve moral distinctiveness, display covenant faithfulness, and bring beneficial influence. Jonah describes his near-death confinement and distress as being in the depths of the grave. Keep wisdom, loyalty, and God’s commands continually remembered and embodied in conduct. Defeat and restrain the power controlling a household before freeing what he held. To attack and damage one another through hostility, accusations, or selfish behavior. Ignorant or spiritually unperceptive leaders guiding people into the same ruin. The responsibility and consequences for a death rested on that person. Abel’s shed blood calls for justice before God. A person bore guilt for violence, murder, or the death of others. Blood can stand for life, violent death, bloodguilt, sacrificial death, or atoning provision. A person’s line, memory, reputation, or place among the people was removed. The present mortal body is a temporary dwelling that will be replaced or clothed with resurrection life. The people shared close family identity, common descent, or covenant solidarity. The deepest strength of the person is pictured as suffering, shaking, drying up, or being restored. God’s people are pictured as having their names recorded among those who belong to life and His kingdom. A person receives new spiritual life from God and enters His kingdom. A person felt deep compassion, affection, anguish, or longing. The phrase describes meager food eaten in hardship, oppression, punishment, or mourning. Evil people feed on wrongdoing and violence as though it were their daily food and drink. To share a meal, and in some settings to observe the Lord's Supper. God removed the food supply that supported life, producing famine or severe scarcity.Biblical Expressions
Believers are holy/royal priesthood
Believers are light / children of light
Believers are living stones
Believers are salt of the earth
Belly of Sheol
Bind teaching on heart and neck
Bind the strong man
Bite and devour one another
Blind leading the blind
Blood be on one’s head
Blood cries from the ground
Blood on the hands / hands full of blood
Blood represents life, death, guilt, or atonement
Blot out/cut off a name
Body as tent
Bone and flesh / flesh and bone
Bones waste/burn/tremble/rejoice
Book of life
Born again/from above
Bowels/inner parts moved with compassion
Bread of affliction/adversity
Bread of wickedness / wine of violence
Break bread
Break the staff of bread
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