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Figures of Speech Used in the Bible: Explained and Illustrated is unavailable, but you can change that!

Public Domain E. W. Bullinger describes 217 figures of speech, each with etymology, descriptions, and citations from the Bible. Nearly 8000 biblical passages are cited.

There are no less than twelve ways in which the same word may be repeated in the same sense in the same sentence. The first is called The Repetition of the Same Word in the Same Sense When the word is repeated in close and immediate succession, no other word or words coming between, it is called GEMINATIO, pronounced Gem-i-nā´-tio, which means a doubling, duplication, a re-doubling. It is also called ITERATIO (It´-er-ā-ti-o),
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