Nave’s Topical Bible
Symbols and Similitudes
179 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- Trees of life and knowledge
- Rainbow
- Circumcision, of the covenant of Abraham
- Passover, of the sparing of the firstborn, and of the Atonement made by Christ
- Of the divine presence, the pillar of cloud
- Thunder on Mount Sinai
- Darkness, of God's inscrutability
Exodus 20:21; Leviticus 16:2; 1 Kings 8:12; Psalms 18:11; Psalms 97:2; Hebrews 12:18-19
- The rock that was struck, of Christ
- The sprinkled blood, of the covenant
- Wine, of the atoning blood
- The bronze serpent, of Christ
- Sacrificial animals
- Waving the wave offering and lifting up the heave offering
- The whole system of Mosaic rites
- Tabernacle
Psalms 15:1; Ezekiel 37:27; Hebrews 8:2,5; Hebrews 9:1-12,23-24
- Sanctuary
- Canaan, of the spiritual rest
- Salt
- Offering water to drink
- Lapping water
- Invitation to approach
- Bow-Shot
- By Jonathan
- By Joash
- Men meeting Saul
- Rain and thunder
- The torn altar
- The tearing of the curtain in the temple
- Wounding
- Praying toward the temple
- Harvest
- Isaiah's children
- Nakedness
- Almond rod
- Sticks and staves
- Food
- Shadow on Ahaz' sun-dial
- Cooking
- Belt
- Bottles
- Breaking of a potter's vessel
- Good and bad figs
- Basket of fruit
- Wine
- Yokes
- Jeremiah's deeds of land
- The book thrown into the Euphrates River
- Being mute
Ezekiel 3:26-27; Ezekiel 24:27; Ezekiel 29:21; Ezekiel 33:22; Luke 1:20-22,62-64
- A siege
- Posture
- Ceremonially unclean food
- Ezekiel's beard
- Change of domicile
- Eating bread with alertness
- Eating and drinking in fear
- A vine
- Death
- A boiling pot
- Mourning forbidden
- Two sticks
- Handwriting on the wall
- The plumb-line
- Marrying a whore
- Roll
- Ephah
- Jonah
- The star in the east
- The rock that was struck
- Salt
- Bread
- Childhood
- Manna
- OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
- WATER
- Cleansing by
- Vivifying
- FIRE
- Purifying
- Illuminating
- Searching
- WIND
- Incomprehensible
- Powerful
- Sensible in its effects
- Reviving
- OIL
- Healing
- Comforting
- Illuminating
- Consecrating
- RAIN AND DEW
- Fertilizing
- Refreshing
- Abundant
- Imperceptible
- A DOVE
- A VOICE
- Speaking
- Guiding
- Warning
- A SEAL
- Impressing
- Earnest
- CLOVEN TONGUES (like split, lashing, projections of fire)
Ablutions, a symbol of purity
See ABLUTIONS
See PURIFICATIONS
For symbolisms of color
See COLORS
See also ALLEGORY
Bible verses about “Symbols and Similitudes”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Genesis 2:9And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
- Genesis 2:17But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
- Genesis 3:3But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
- Genesis 3:24So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
- Revelation 22:2In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
- Genesis 9:12And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
- Genesis 9:13I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
- Genesis 17:11And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
- Romans 4:11And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:
- Exodus 12:3Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
- Exodus 12:4And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
- Exodus 12:5Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
- Exodus 12:6And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
- Exodus 12:7And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
- Exodus 12:8And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
- Exodus 12:9Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.
- Exodus 12:10And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
- Exodus 12:11And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the Lord’s passover.
- Exodus 12:12For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the Lord.
- Exodus 12:13And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 12:14And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
- Exodus 12:15Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
- Exodus 12:16And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.
- Exodus 12:17And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.
- Exodus 12:18In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.
- Exodus 12:19Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.
- Exodus 12:20Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.
- Exodus 12:21Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.
- Exodus 12:22And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
- Exodus 12:23For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
- Exodus 12:24And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.
- Exodus 12:25And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the Lord will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.
- Exodus 12:26And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?
- Exodus 12:27That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the Lord’s passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
- Exodus 12:28And the children of Israel went away, and did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
- 1 Corinthians 5:7Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
- Exodus 13:21And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:
- Exodus 13:22He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.
- Exodus 14:19And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them:
- Exodus 14:20And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night.