Four of the most important types of Hebrew parallelism are: (1) synonymous parallelism, in which the second line of a couplet repeats the idea of the first line (e.g., 3:1; 24:1); (2) antithetic parallelism, where the thought of the second line is contrasted with that of the first line (e.g., 1:6; 90:6); (3) synthetic parallelism, in which the second line is a further development of the thought begun in the first line (e.g., 1:1; 19:7); (4) and emblematic parallelism, where the second line illustrates