Searching for figures of speech in the Old Testament

Harry Hahne
Harry Hahne Member Posts: 911
edited November 21 in English Forum

The New Testament has many types of figures of speech tagged. These are described in The Lexham Figurative Language of the New Testament Glossary resource.

There also seem to be a lot of figures of speech tagged in the Old Testament, but with a different system. Is this system of tagging figures of speech in the OT documented somewhere?

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  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 35,674

    There also seem to be a lot of figures of speech tagged in the Old Testament, but with a different system.

    Bullinger’s Figures of Speech cover the OT and NT  e.g. figureofSpeech:name:Simile

    The New Testament has many types of figures of speech tagged. These are described in The Lexham Figurative Language of the New Testament Glossary resource.

    Figurative Language covers only the NT  e.g. figurativeLanguage:category:Simile

    Whilst these two labels seem to overlap with Simile, both being defined by words "like" and  "similar", the results could not be more dissimilar!

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