Symbols and Similitudes
Symbols and Similitudes
General and unclassified:
– Trees of life and knowledge
Gen 2:9; Gen 2:17; Gen 3:3; Gen 3:24; Rev 22:2
– Rainbow
Gen 9:12-13
– Circumcision, of the covenant of Abraham
Gen 17:11; Rom 4:11
– Passover, of the sparing of the firstborn, and of the atonement made by Christ
Exo 12:3-28; 1Co 5:7
– Of the divine presence, the pillar of cloud
Exo 13:21-22; Exo 14:19-20; Exo 19:9; Exo 19:16
– Thunder on Mount Sinai
Exo 19:9; Exo 19:16
– Darkness, of God’s inscrutability
Exo 20:21; Lev 16:2; 1Ki 8:12; Psa 18:11; Psa 97:2; Heb 12:18-19
– The smitten rock, of Christ
Exo 17:6; 1Co 10:4
– The sprinkled blood, of the covenant
Exo 24:8
– Wine, of the atoning blood
Mat 26:27-29; Mar 14:23-25; Luk 22:17-18; Luk 22:20
– The brazen serpent, of Christ
Num 21:8-9; Joh 3:14
– Sacrificial animals
Gen 15:8-11; Joh 1:29; Joh 1:36
– Waving the wave offering and heaving the heave offering
Exo 29:24-28; Lev 8:27-29; Lev 9:21
– The whole system of Mosaic rites
Heb 9:9-10; Heb 9:18-23
– Tabernacle
Psa 15:1; Eze 37:27; Heb 8:2; Heb 8:5; Heb 9:1-12; Heb 9:23-24
– Sanctuary
Psa 20:2
– Canaan, of the spiritual rest
Heb 3:11-12; Heb 4:5
– Salt
Num 18:19
– Offering water to drink
Gen 24:13-15; Gen 24:42-44
– Lapping water
Jdg 7:4-8
– Invitation to approach
1Sa 14:8-12
– Bow-shot, by Jonathan
1Sa 20:21-37
– Bow-shot, by Joash
2Ki 13:15-19
– Men meeting Saul
1Sa 10:2-7
– Rain and thunder
1Sa 12:16-18
– Rent altar
1Ki 13:3; 1Ki 13:5
– Rending of the vail
Mat 27:51; Mar 15:38; Luk 23:45
– Wounding
1Ki 20:35-40
– Praying toward the temple
1Ki 8:29; Dan 6:10
– Harvest
2Ki 19:29
– Isaiah’s children
Isa 8:18
– Nakedness
Isa 20:2-4
– Almond rod
Jer 1:11
– Sticks and staves
Eze 37:16-17; Zec 11:7; Zec 11:10-11; Zec 11:14
– Food
2Ki 19:29; Isa 37:30
– Shadow on Ahaz’s dial
2Ki 20:8-11; Isa 38:7-8
– Cooking
Jer 1:13; Eze 4:9-15; Eze 24:3-5
– Girdle
Jer 13:1-7; Act 21:11
– Bottles
Jer 13:12; Jer 19:1-2; Jer 19:10
– Breaking of potter’s vessel
Jer 19:1-15
– Good and bad figs
Jer 24:1-10
– Basket of fruit
Jer 24:1-3; Amo 8:1-2
– Wine
Jer 25:15-17; Mat 26:27; Mar 14:23; Luk 22:17
– Yokes
Jer 27:2-3; Jer 28:10
– Jeremiah’s deeds of land
Jer 32:1-16
– Book cast into Euphrates
Jer 51:63
– Dumbness
Eze 3:26-27; Eze 24:27; Eze 29:21; Eze 33:22; Luk 1:20-22; Luk 1:62-64
– Siege
Eze 4:1-3
– Posture
Eze 4:4-8
– Unclean food
Eze 4:9-17
– Ezekiel’s beard
Eze 5:1-4
– Change of domicile
Eze 12:3-11
– Eating bread with carefulness
Eze 12:17-20
– Eating and drinking in fear
Eze 12:18
– Vine
Eze 15:2; Eze 19:10-14
– Death
Eze 24:16-19
– Boiling pot
Eze 24:1-5
– Mourning forbidden
Eze 24:15-18
– Two sticks
Eze 37:15-28
– Handwriting on the wall
Dan 5:5-6; Dan 5:16-28
– Plumb line
Amo 7:7-8
– Marrying a whore
Hos 1:2-9; Hos 3:1-4
– Roll
Zec 5:2-4
– Ephah
Zec 5:6-11
– Jonas
Mat 16:4; Luk 11:29-30
– Star in the East
Mat 2:2
– Smitten rock
1Co 10:4; Exo 17:6
– Salt
Col 4:6
– Bread
Mat 26:26; Mar 14:22; Luk 22:19
– Childhood
Mat 18:3; Mar 10:14-15; Luk 18:16-17
– Manna
Joh 6:31-58
Of the Holy Spirit:
– Water:
b General references
Joh 3:5; Joh 7:38-39
b Cleansing by
Eze 16:9; Eze 36:25; Eph 5:26; Heb 10:22
b Vivifying
Psa 1:3; Isa 27:3; Isa 27:6; Isa 44:3-4; Isa 58:11
– Fire:
b General references
Mat 3:11
b Purifying
Isa 4:4; Mal 3:2-3
b Illuminating
Exo 13:21; Psa 78:14
b Searching
Zep 1:12; 1Co 2:10
– Wind:
b General references
Son 4:16
b Incomprehensible
Joh 3:8; 1Co 12:11
b Powerful
1Ki 19:11; Act 2:2
b Sensible in its effects
Joh 3:8
b Reviving
Eze 37:9-10; Eze 37:14
– Oil:
b General references
Psa 45:7
b Healing
Isa 1:6; Luk 10:34; Rev 18:13
b Comforting
Isa 61:3; Heb 1:9
b Illuminating
Zec 4:2-3; Zec 4:11-13; Mat 25:3-4; 1Jn 2:20; 1Jn 2:27
b Consecrating
Exo 29:7; Exo 30:30; Isa 61:1
– Rain and dew:
b General references
Psa 72:6
b Fertilizing
Eze 34:26-27; Hos 6:3; Hos 10:12; Hos 14:5
b Refreshing
Psa 68:9; Isa 18:4
b Abundant
Psa 133:3
b Imperceptible
2Sa 17:12; Mar 4:26-28
– A dove
Mat 3:16
– A voice
b General references
Isa 6:8
b Speaking
Mat 10:20
b Guiding
Isa 30:21; Joh 16:13
b Warning
Heb 3:7-11
– A seal
b General references
Rev 7:2
b Impressing
Job 38:14; 2Co 3:18
b Earnest
Eph 1:13-14; Eph 4:30; 2Co 1:22
– Cloven tongues
Act 2:3; Act 2:6; Act 2:11
Ablutions, a symbol of purity
Ablution; Purification
Symbolisms of color
Colors; Allegory; Instruction, By Object Lessons, By Symbols; Instruction, Of Children; Instruction, In Religion