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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.

Hyssop (אֵזוֹב) a small humble moss-like shrub (1 Kings 4:33; 5:13) used in ceremonial sprinklings. See Lev. 14:4. Num. 19:18, etc. Ps. 51:7 (9).—“Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean”: i.e., purge me with the atoning blood; not with the herb. Some Rhetorists confine Metonymy only to nouns, and deny its application to verbs. But there seem to be certain
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