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Simile (61 Occurrences)
... comparison. Multi-Version Concordance Simile (61 Occurrences). Matthew 13:18
Ye, therefore, hear ye the simile of the sower: (YLT). Matthew ...
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Similes (22 Occurrences)
... (n.) Plural of Simile. ... Matthew 13:34 All these things spake Jesus in similes to the
multitudes, and without a simile he was not speaking to them, (YLT). ...
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Affirmation (335 Occurrences)
... Numbers 24:3 and he taketh up his simile, and saith: 'An affirmation of Balaam son
of Beor -- And an affirmation of the man whose eyes are shut -- (YLT). ...
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Speaking (376 Occurrences)
... (WEB ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV). Matthew 13:34 All these things spake Jesus in similes
to the multitudes, and without a simile he was not speaking to them, (YLT). ...
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Questioning (65 Occurrences)
... YLT). Mark 7:17 And when he entered into a house from the multitude, his
disciples were questioning him about the simile, (YLT). Mark ...
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Addeth (44 Occurrences)
... (YLT). Job 27:1 And Job addeth to lift up his simile, and saith: -- (YLT). Job
29:1 And Job addeth to lift up his simile, and saith: -- (YLT). ...
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Reign (468 Occurrences)
... (YLT). Matthew 13:24 Another simile he set before them, saying: 'The reign of the
heavens was likened to a man sowing good seed in his field, (YLT). ...
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Using (88 Occurrences)
... BBE). Ezekiel 16:44 Lo, every one using a simile, Doth use a simile concerning
thee, saying: As the mother -- her daughter! (YLT). ...
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Shut (237 Occurrences)
... (BBE). Numbers 24:3 and he taketh up his simile, and saith: 'An affirmation of Balaam
son of Beor -- And an affirmation of the man whose eyes are shut -- (YLT). ...
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Questioned (57 Occurrences)
... Mark 7:17 And when he entered into a house from the multitude, his disciples
were questioning him about the simile, (See NAS). Mark ...
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Vine-growers (13 Occurrences)
... Luke 20:9 And he began to speak unto the people this simile: 'A certain man planted
a vineyard, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad for a long time ...
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Unripe (6 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 18:2 What -- to you, ye -- using this simile Concerning the ground of Israel,
saying: Fathers do eat unripe fruit, And the sons' teeth are blunted? ...
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Lampstand (38 Occurrences)
... is properly "a torch" and is thus rendered generally in the Revised Version (British
and American), but "lamp" in Isaiah 62:1, where it is used as a simile. ...
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Lamp (45 Occurrences)
... is properly "a torch" and is thus rendered generally in the Revised Version (British
and American), but "lamp" in Isaiah 62:1, where it is used as a simile. ...
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Landowner (4 Occurrences)
... Matthew 21:33 Hear ye another simile: There was a certain man, a householder, who
planted a vineyard, and did put a hedge round it, and digged in it a wine ...
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Gathering (71 Occurrences)
... (See NAS). Luke 8:4 And a great multitude having gathered, and those who from city
and city were coming unto him, he spake by a simile: (See NIV). ...
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Goyim (7 Occurrences)
... (YLT). Numbers 24:20 And he seeth Amalek, and taketh up his simile, and saith:
'A beginning of the Goyim 'is' Amalek; And his latter end -- for ever he perisheth ...
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Wailed (11 Occurrences)
... Micah 2:4 In that day doth 'one' take up for you a simile, And he hath wailed a
wailing of wo, He hath said, We have been utterly spoiled, The portion of my ...
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Wax (32 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. WAX. waks: (1) Noun (donagh): Used only in a simile
of melting (Psalm 22:14; Psalm 68:2; Psalm 97:5 Micah 1:4). See WRITING. ...
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Indignant (22 Occurrences)
... Numbers 23:7 And he taketh up his simile, and saith: 'From Aram he doth lead me --
Balak king of Moab; From mountains of the east: Come -- curse for me Jacob ...
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Insinuations (1 Occurrence)
... Habakkuk 2:6 Do not these -- all of them -- against him a simile taken up, And a
moral of acute sayings for him, And say, Wo 'to' him who is multiplying 'what ...
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Trusting (45 Occurrences)
... Luke 18:9 And he spake also unto certain who have been trusting in themselves that
they were righteous, and have been despising the rest, this simile: (YLT). ...
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Thinking (58 Occurrences)
... Luke 19:11 And while they are hearing these things, having added he spake a simile,
because of his being nigh to Jerusalem, and of their thinking that the ...
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Resemblance (2 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness. 3.
(n.) A comparison; a simile. 4. (n.) Probability; verisimilitude. ...
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Exactor (9 Occurrences)
... (YLT). Isaiah 14:4 That thou hast taken up this simile Concerning the king
of Babylon, and said, How hath the exactor ceased, (YLT). ...
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Enduring (25 Occurrences)
... Numbers 24:21 And he seeth the Kenite, and taketh up his simile, and saith: 'Enduring
'is' thy dwelling, And setting in a rock thy nest, (YLT NAS RSV). ...
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Explaining (8 Occurrences)
... Explaining (8 Occurrences). Mark 4:34 and without a simile he was not speaking to
them, and by themselves, to his disciples he was expounding all. (See NAS). ...
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Expounding (3 Occurrences)
... Expounding (3 Occurrences). Mark 4:34 and without a simile he was not speaking to
them, and by themselves, to his disciples he was expounding all. (YLT). ...
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Dark (234 Occurrences)
... word of God comes to the prophet in the form of a vision (compare the visions of
Amos or Jeremiah), ie the truth presents itself to them in the form of a simile...
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Despising (25 Occurrences)
... Luke 18:9 And he spake also unto certain who have been trusting in themselves that
they were righteous, and have been despising the rest, this simile: (YLT). ...
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Member (20 Occurrences)
... severe discipline which is needed to subdue the members of even the regenerate to
perfect submission under the higher law of the Spirit by the simile of the ...
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Moral (5 Occurrences)
... Habakkuk 2:6 Do not these -- all of them -- against him a simile taken up, And a
moral of acute sayings for him, And say, Wo 'to' him who is multiplying 'what ...
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Parable (52 Occurrences)
... In this widest sense of the term there is practically no difference between parable
and simile (see Thayer, Dictionary of New Testament Greek, under the word). ...
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Presently (25 Occurrences)
... Luke 19:11 And while they are hearing these things, having added he spake a simile,
because of his being nigh to Jerusalem, and of their thinking that the ...
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Perisheth (15 Occurrences)
... Numbers 24:20 And he seeth Amalek, and taketh up his simile, and saith: 'A beginning
of the Goyim 'is' Amalek; And his latter end -- for ever he perisheth ...
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Blunted (5 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 18:2 What -- to you, ye -- using this simile Concerning the ground of Israel,
saying: Fathers do eat unripe fruit, And the sons' teeth are blunted? ...
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Byword (14 Occurrences)
... Jeremiah 24:9 And I have given them for a trembling, For evil -- to all kingdoms
of the earth, For a reproach, and for a simile, For a byword, and for a ...
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Behoveth (75 Occurrences)
... generation. (YLT). Luke 18:1 And he spake also a simile to them, that it
behoveth 'us' always to pray, and not to faint, (YLT). Luke ...
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Backslider (2 Occurrences)
... Micah 2:4 In that day doth 'one' take up for you a simile, And he hath wailed a
wailing of wo, He hath said, We have been utterly spoiled, The portion of my ...
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Couches (15 Occurrences)
... Luke 14:7 And he spake a simile unto those called, marking how they were
choosing out the first couches, saying unto them, (YLT). ...
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Choosing (6 Occurrences)
... Choosing (6 Occurrences). Luke 14:7 And he spake a simile unto those called, marking
how they were choosing out the first couches, saying unto them, (YLT). ...
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Caper'na-um (16 Occurrences)
... Luke 4:23 And he said unto them, 'Certainly ye will say to me this simile, Physician,
heal thyself; as great things as we heard done in Capernaum, do also here ...
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Compare (22 Occurrences)
... 6. (n.) Comparison. 7. (n.) Illustration by comparison; simile. 8. (vt) To get;
to procure; to obtain; to acquire. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. COMPARE. ...
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Acute (4 Occurrences)
... Habakkuk 2:6 Do not these -- all of them -- against him a simile taken up, And a
moral of acute sayings for him, And say, Wo 'to' him who is multiplying 'what ...
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Apportioneth (9 Occurrences)
... Micah 2:4 In that day doth 'one' take up for you a simile, And he hath wailed a
wailing of wo, He hath said, We have been utterly spoiled, The portion of my ...
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Asking (111 Occurrences)
... you." (See RSV). Mark 4:10 And when he was alone, those about him, with
the twelve, did ask him of the simile, (See NAS). Mark 5:9 ...
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Apportions (2 Occurrences)
... Micah 2:4 In that day doth 'one' take up for you a simile, And he hath wailed a
wailing of wo, He hath said, We have been utterly spoiled, The portion of my ...
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Similitude (18 Occurrences)
... substance. 2. (n.) The act of likening, or that which likens, one thing
to another; fanciful or imaginative comparison; a simile. 3 ...
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Sayings (134 Occurrences)
... word of God comes to the prophet in the form of a vision (compare the visions of
Amos or Jeremiah), ie the truth presents itself to them in the form of a simile...
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Similarly (4 Occurrences)

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Seeking (182 Occurrences)
... Mark 12:12 And they were seeking to lay hold on him, and they feared the multitude,
for they knew that against them he spake the simile, and having left him ...
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Dove (27 Occurrences)
... of the flood; then follows its specified use in sacrifice; note of its migratory
habits is made, and then in poetry, prophecy, comparison, simile and song, it ...
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Multiplying (23 Occurrences)
... Habakkuk 2:6 Do not these -- all of them -- against him a simile taken up, And a
moral of acute sayings for him, And say, Wo 'to' him who is multiplying 'what ...
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Along (500 Occurrences)
... it. (See RSV NIV). Mark 4:10 And when he was alone, those about him, with
the twelve, did ask him of the simile, (See NAS). Mark 4 ...
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Serving (85 Occurrences)
... Hebrews 9:9 which 'is' a simile in regard to the present time, in which both gifts
and sacrifices are offered, which are not able, in regard to conscience, to ...
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Clothing (288 Occurrences)
... Luke 5:36 And he spake also a simile unto them -- 'No one a patch of new clothing
doth put on old clothing, and if otherwise, the new also doth make a rent ...
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Themselves (911 Occurrences)
... (WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV). Mark 4:34 and without a simile he was not
speaking to them, and by themselves, to his disciples he was expounding all. ...
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Changes (27 Occurrences)
... Micah 2:4 In that day doth 'one' take up for you a simile, And he hath wailed a
wailing of wo, He hath said, We have been utterly spoiled, The portion of my ...
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Lead (192 Occurrences)
... Moses mentioned the sinking qualities of lead in the sea in his simile of the sinking
of Pharaoh's hosts "as lead in the mighty waters" (Exodus 15:10). ...
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Reviling (47 Occurrences)
... (YLT). Jeremiah 24:9 And I have given them for a trembling, For evil -- to all kingdoms
of the earth, For a reproach, and for a simile, For a byword, and for a ...
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Answereth (144 Occurrences)
... 1 Samuel 10:12 And a man thence answereth and saith, 'And who 'is' their father?'
therefore it hath been for a simile, 'Is Saul also among the prophets?' (YLT). ...
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Sir (90 Occurrences)
... disciples.' (YLT). Luke 12:41 And Peter said to him, 'Sir, unto us this
simile dost thou speak, or also unto all?' (YLT). Luke 13:8 ...
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Tree (245 Occurrences)
... It has since been made possible in a much higher and more glorious way. 2.
A Common Poetic Simile: This picture was not lost to Israel. ...
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Setting (82 Occurrences)
... Numbers 24:21 And he seeth the Kenite, and taketh up his simile, and saith: 'Enduring
'is' thy dwelling, And setting in a rock thy nest, (YLT). ...
biblethesaurus.org/s/setting.htm - 32k

Wailing (44 Occurrences)
... Micah 2:4 In that day doth 'one' take up for you a simile, And he hath wailed a
wailing of wo, He hath said, We have been utterly spoiled, The portion of my ...
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Field (390 Occurrences)
... And now go. (Root in WEY BBE NIV). Luke 12:16 And he spake a simile unto them, saying,
'Of a certain rich man the field brought forth well; (YLT). ...
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Wail (50 Occurrences)
... Micah 2:4 In that day doth 'one' take up for you a simile, And he hath wailed a
wailing of wo, He hath said, We have been utterly spoiled, The portion of my ...
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Trembling (72 Occurrences)
... (YLT). Jeremiah 24:9 And I have given them for a trembling, For evil -- to all kingdoms
of the earth, For a reproach, and for a simile, For a byword, and for a ...
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Life (6001 Occurrences)
... It has since been made possible in a much higher and more glorious way. 2.
A Common Poetic Simile: This picture was not lost to Israel. ...
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Certainly (415 Occurrences)
... Luke 4:23 And he said unto them, 'Certainly ye will say to me this simile, Physician,
heal thyself; as great things as we heard done in Capernaum, do also here ...
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Perished (76 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 12:22 Son of man, what 'is' this simile to you, concerning the land of Israel,
saying, Prolonged are the days, and perished hath every vision? (YLT). ...
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Birds (125 Occurrences)
... a curse. 1. Earliest Mention: The historians of the Bible frequently used
birds in comparison, simile, and metaphor. They are first ...
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Proverbs (11 Occurrences)
... on like subjects; note for instance the group on the king (Proverbs 25:2-7). The
most striking-feature of the collection is the prevalence of simile and analogy ...
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Semites
... nature and presence. Simile, parable and Nature-marvels cover the pages
and tablets of their records. Unfortunately this poetic ...
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Semitic
... nature and presence. Simile, parable and Nature-marvels cover the pages
and tablets of their records. Unfortunately this poetic ...
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Regard (230 Occurrences)
... Hebrews 9:9 which 'is' a simile in regard to the present time, in which both gifts
and sacrifices are offered, which are not able, in regard to conscience, to ...
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Epistles (2 Occurrences)
... The diction is inartificial and unadorned. Not a simile, not a metaphor (except
the most fundamental, like "walking in the light") occurs. ...
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Thence (152 Occurrences)
... 1 Samuel 10:12 And a man thence answereth and saith, 'And who 'is' their father?'
therefore it hath been for a simile, 'Is Saul also among the prophets?' (YLT). ...
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Wo (92 Occurrences)
... Micah 2:4 In that day doth 'one' take up for you a simile, And he hath wailed a
wailing of wo, He hath said, We have been utterly spoiled, The portion of my ...
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