Nave’s Topical Bible
Anthropomorphisms
64 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
(Figures of speech, which attribute human forms, acts, and Affections to God)
- MISCELLANEOUS FIGURES
Genesis 2:2-3,19; Genesis 6:6; Genesis 9:16; Genesis 11:5,7; Genesis 18:17-19,21,33; Genesis 19:29; Genesis 22:12; Genesis 28:13; Genesis 35:13; Exodus 2:24; Exodus 3:8; Exodus 14:24; Exodus 20:5; Exodus 31:17; Exodus 32:14; Numbers 11:25; Judges 2:18; 1 Samuel 15:35; 2 Samuel 24:16; 1 Chronicles 21:15; Psalms 31:2; Psalms 33:6; Psalms 35:1-3; Psalms 36:7; Psalms 57:1; Psalms 68:17; Psalms 94:9; Psalms 121:4; Isaiah 1:15; Ezekiel 1:24,28; Habakkuk 1:13; 1 Peter 3:12
- ATTRIBUTED TO DEITY
- Memory
- Assisted by tokens
- Reason
- Understanding
- Will
- MISCELLANEOUS ACTS AND STATES OF MIND ATTRIBUTED TO
- Walking
Genesis 3:8; Leviticus 26:12; Deuteronomy 23:14; Job 22:14; Habakkuk 3:15
- Resting
Genesis 2:2-3; Exodus 20:11; Exodus 31:17; Deuteronomy 5:14; Hebrews 4:4,10
- Does not faint
- Amazement
- Laughing
- Sleeping
- Grieved
- Oaths
See OATHS
See also ANGER OF GOD
- Walking
Bible verses about “Anthropomorphisms”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Genesis 2:2And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
- Genesis 2:3And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
- Genesis 2:19And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
- Genesis 6:6And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
- Genesis 9:16And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
- Genesis 11:5And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
- Genesis 11:7Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
- Genesis 18:17And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do;
- Genesis 18:18Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
- Genesis 18:19For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
- Genesis 18:21I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
- Genesis 18:33And the Lord went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.
- Genesis 19:29And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.
- Genesis 22:12And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
- Genesis 28:13And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;
- Genesis 35:13And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.
- Exodus 2:24And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
- Exodus 3:8And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
- Exodus 14:24And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the Lord looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,
- Exodus 20:5Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
- Exodus 31:17It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
- Exodus 32:14And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.
- Numbers 11:25And the Lord came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease.
- Judges 2:18And when the Lord raised them up judges, then the Lord was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the Lord because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.
- 1 Samuel 15:35And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the Lord repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.
- 2 Samuel 24:16And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
- 1 Chronicles 21:15And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the Lord beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
- Psalms 31:2Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.
- Psalms 33:6By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
- Psalms 35:1Plead my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.
- Psalms 35:2Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.
- Psalms 35:3Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
- Psalms 36:7How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
- Psalms 57:1Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.
- Psalms 68:17The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.
- Psalms 94:9He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
- Psalms 121:4Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
- Isaiah 1:15And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
- Ezekiel 1:24And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings.
- Ezekiel 1:28As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.