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 25–48 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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Exodus 17:6 OT
Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink.” Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
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and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.
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Exodus 24:8 OT
Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words.”
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He took the cup, gave thanks, and gave to them, saying, “All of you drink it, for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins. But I tell you that I will not drink of this fruit of the vine…
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He took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave to them. They all drank of it. He said to them, “This is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many. Most certainly I tell you, I will no more drink of the fruit of the…
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Luke 22:17 NT
He received a cup, and when he had given thanks, he said, “Take this, and share it among yourselves,
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Luke 22:18 NT
for I tell you, I will not drink at all again from the fruit of the vine, until God’s Kingdom comes.”
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Luke 22:20 NT
Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.
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Numbers 21:8 OT
Yahweh said to Moses, “Make a venomous snake, and set it on a pole. It shall happen that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.”
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Numbers 21:9 OT
Moses made a serpent of bronze, and set it on the pole. If a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked at the serpent of bronze, he lived.
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John 3:14 NT
As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
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He said, “Lord Yahweh, how will I know that I will inherit it?” He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.” He brought him all these, and…
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John 1:29 NT
The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
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John 1:36 NT
and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!”
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You shall put all of this in Aaron’s hands, and in his sons’ hands, and shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh. You shall take them from their hands, and burn them on the altar on the burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma before…
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He put all these in Aaron’s hands and in his sons’ hands, and waved them for a wave offering before Yahweh. Moses took them from their hands, and burned them on the altar on the burnt offering. They were a consecration offering for a…
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Aaron waved the breasts and the right thigh for a wave offering before Yahweh, as Moses commanded.
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Hebrews 9:9 NT
This is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshiper perfect,
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Hebrews 9:10 NT
being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.
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Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated without blood. For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool…
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Psalms 15:1 OT
Yahweh, who shall dwell in your sanctuary? Who shall live on your holy hill?
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My tent also will be with them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
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Hebrews 8:2 NT
a servant of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.
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Hebrews 8:5 NT
who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, “See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.”