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The Bible uses metaphors and idioms from the ancient world that are unfamiliar to us today. This glossary defines these structures and figures as used in the Figurative Language dataset.

Metaphor — An association between two conceptual domains where one abstract concept (nonphysical, unfamiliar, or less structured) is presented in terms of some other concrete concept (physical, familiar, or more structured).