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 193–216 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 29:7 OT
Then you shall take the anointing oil, and pour it on his head, and anoint him.
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Exodus 30:30 OT
You shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest’s office.
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Isaiah 61:1 OT
The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,
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Psalms 72:6 OT
He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.
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I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing. I will cause the shower to come down in its season. There will be showers of blessing.
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The tree of the field will yield its fruit, and the earth will yield its increase, and they will be secure in their land. Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the…
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Hosea 6:3 OT
Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”
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Hosea 10:12 OT
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.
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Hosea 14:5 OT
I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon.
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Psalms 68:9 OT
You, God, sent a plentiful rain. You confirmed your inheritance when it was weary.
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Isaiah 18:4 OT
For Yahweh said to me, “I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
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Psalms 133:3 OT
like the dew of Hermon, that comes down on the hills of Zion; for there Yahweh gives the blessing, even life forever more.
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So we will come on him in some place where he will be found, and we will light on him as the dew falls on the ground, then we will not leave so much as one of him and of all the men who are with him.
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Mark 4:26-28 NT
He said, “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth, and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, though he doesn’t know how. For the earth bears fruit: first the blade, then the ear,…
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Matthew 3:16 NT
Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him.
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Isaiah 6:8 OT
I heard the Lord’s voice, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am. Send me!”
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For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.
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Isaiah 30:21 OT
and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”
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John 16:13 NT
However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.
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Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness, where your fathers tested me and tried me, and saw my deeds for…
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I saw another angel ascend from the sunrise, having the seal of the living God. He cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was given to harm the earth and the sea,
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Job 38:14 OT
It is changed as clay under the seal, and presented as a garment.
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But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.
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In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,