Symbols and Similitudes
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Symbols and Similitudes’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Showing 1–24 of 222 verses grouped under this topic.
Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Genesis 2:9 OT
Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
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Genesis 2:17 OT
but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”
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Genesis 3:3 OT
but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it. You shall not touch it, lest you die.’ ”
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Genesis 3:24 OT
So he drove out the man; and he placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
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in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
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Genesis 9:12 OT
God said, “This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
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Genesis 9:13 OT
I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.
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You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant between me and you.
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Romans 4:11 NT
He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness…
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Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household; and if the household is too little for a lamb, then he…
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Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.
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Exodus 13:21 OT
Yahweh went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, that they might go by day and by night:
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Exodus 13:22 OT
the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, didn’t depart from before the people.
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Exodus 14:19 OT
The angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them, and stood behind them.
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Exodus 14:20 OT
It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel. There was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night. One didn’t come near the other all night.
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Exodus 19:9 OT
Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever.” Moses told the words of the people to Yahweh.
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Exodus 19:16 OT
On the third day, when it was morning, there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.
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Exodus 20:21 OT
The people stayed at a distance, and Moses came near to the thick darkness where God was.
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and Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at just any time into the Most Holy Place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark; lest he die; for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.
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1 Kings 8:12 OT
Then Solomon said, “Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
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Psalms 18:11 OT
He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
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Psalms 97:2 OT
Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
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For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,
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the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,