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[size=+]What is a Figure of speech?
a word or phrase used in a nonliteral sense to add rhetorical force to a spoken or written passage:
example : calling her a crab is just a figure of speech
You see the figure above is about, someone , but calling her a crab, denotes, she is maybe, a cranky person, or something,
So, when you call Satan, a serpent or snake, he is a morally low person. Get it ? The situation and history is literal . But the figures themselves are not, they are just used to describe what is happening , without saying it bluntly.
Definition of Euphemism
noun
a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing:“downsizing” as a euphemism for cuts
Euphemism
When I was a kid, people bought used cars. These days, people buy fine pre-owned cars. There is no difference between the meaning of “used car” and “pre-owned car”—both refer to the same thing, namely a car someone else has owned and used. However, “used” sounds a bit nasty, perhaps suggesting that the car might be a bit sticky in places. In contrast, “pre-owned” sounds rather better. By substituting “pre-owned” for “used”, the car sounds somehow better, although it is the same car whether it is described as used or pre-owned.
If you need to make something that is negative sound positive without actually making it better, then a euphemism should be your tool of choice. A euphemism is a pleasant or at least inoffensive word or phrase that is substituted for a word or phrase that means the same thing but is unpleasant, offensive otherwise negative in terms of its connotation. To use an analogy, using a euphemism is like coating a bitter pill with sugar, making it easier to swallow.
The way to use a euphemism is to replace the key words or phrases that are negative in their connotation with those that are positive (or at least neutral). Naturally, it helps to know what the target audience regards as positive words, but generically positive words can do the trick quite well.
The defense against a euphemisms is to replace the positive term with a neutral term that has the same meaning. For example, if someone say “An American citizen was inadvertently neutralized during a drone strike”, the neutral presentation would be “An American citizen was killed during a drone strike.” While “killed” does have a negative connotation, it does describe the situation with more neutrality.
In some cases, euphemisms are used for commendable reasons, such as being polite in social situations or to avoid exposing children to “adult” concepts. For example, at a funeral it is considered polite to refer the dead person as “the departed” rather than “the corpse.”
The Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary has defined a Euphemism as so:
"...an indirect word or phrase that people often use to refer to something embarrassing or unpleasant, sometimes to make it seem more acceptable than it really is."
Examples of Euphemisms
He/She is dead He/She-
Kicked the bucket
Passed away
Passed on
asleep
Is pushing up the daisies
no more
resting in peace
six feet under
departed
Have Intercourse-
Make love
Sleep with
Get it on
Act like rabbits
Do it
Get laid
communists -
“democrats”
Here are some, of the euphemisms in the Bible:
Return to the ground = die
Genesis 3:19
King James Version (KJV)
19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
knew = have sex with (also 1 Kings 1:4)
Genesis 4:1
4 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.
To Uncover your fathers nakedness = is to have intercourse with ones mother
Genesis 9:
21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.
Leviticus 20:11
And the man that lieth (intercourse) with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
For more read: ( Leviticus 18:6-30 )
seed = sperm
Leviticus 15:16
16 And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.
from 'zara`' (2232); seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity:--X carnally, child............
Slept with his fathers = died
1 Kings 2:
10 So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
Sleep meaning Dead =
John 11:
11 These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleeps; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
12 Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.
13 Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.
14 Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.
........................
Definition of metaphor
noun
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable:“I had fallen through a trapdoor of depression,” said Mark, who was fond of theatrical metaphors her poetry depends on suggestion and metaphor
a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, especially something abstract:the amounts of money being lost by the company were enough to make it a metaphor for an industry that was teetering
Hebrews 12:1
12 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
The metaphor here is the Cloud. Cloud used to describe a great gathering of Christian witnesses.
Serpent =Another name for Satan.
Genesis 3
3 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
beast simply can mean a living thing; Anything living or alive.
chay
khah'-ee
from 'chayah' (2421); alive;
Definition of symbolism
noun
the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities
Revelation 12:9
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Revelation 12:9
9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Genesis 3
3 Now the serpent [/color]was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.
Ezekiel 28:
13] Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God
14You are the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so:thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that you were created, till iniquity was found in thee
And I will not get into the Symbolism of Trees and its use in God's word.
What happened in the garden is 100% factual history. The thing is, it is related in figures of speech, for example one being type is euphemisms. Because its not meant perhaps that everyone understand, but the wise and mature Christians that want to eat the meat meat of God's word will continue to study:
Hebrews 5:
11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.
12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
13 For every one that uses milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
14 But strong meat belongs to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.[/size][/color]
a word or phrase used in a nonliteral sense to add rhetorical force to a spoken or written passage:
example : calling her a crab is just a figure of speech
You see the figure above is about, someone , but calling her a crab, denotes, she is maybe, a cranky person, or something,
So, when you call Satan, a serpent or snake, he is a morally low person. Get it ? The situation and history is literal . But the figures themselves are not, they are just used to describe what is happening , without saying it bluntly.
Definition of Euphemism
noun
a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing:“downsizing” as a euphemism for cuts
Euphemism
When I was a kid, people bought used cars. These days, people buy fine pre-owned cars. There is no difference between the meaning of “used car” and “pre-owned car”—both refer to the same thing, namely a car someone else has owned and used. However, “used” sounds a bit nasty, perhaps suggesting that the car might be a bit sticky in places. In contrast, “pre-owned” sounds rather better. By substituting “pre-owned” for “used”, the car sounds somehow better, although it is the same car whether it is described as used or pre-owned.
If you need to make something that is negative sound positive without actually making it better, then a euphemism should be your tool of choice. A euphemism is a pleasant or at least inoffensive word or phrase that is substituted for a word or phrase that means the same thing but is unpleasant, offensive otherwise negative in terms of its connotation. To use an analogy, using a euphemism is like coating a bitter pill with sugar, making it easier to swallow.
The way to use a euphemism is to replace the key words or phrases that are negative in their connotation with those that are positive (or at least neutral). Naturally, it helps to know what the target audience regards as positive words, but generically positive words can do the trick quite well.
The defense against a euphemisms is to replace the positive term with a neutral term that has the same meaning. For example, if someone say “An American citizen was inadvertently neutralized during a drone strike”, the neutral presentation would be “An American citizen was killed during a drone strike.” While “killed” does have a negative connotation, it does describe the situation with more neutrality.
In some cases, euphemisms are used for commendable reasons, such as being polite in social situations or to avoid exposing children to “adult” concepts. For example, at a funeral it is considered polite to refer the dead person as “the departed” rather than “the corpse.”
The Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary has defined a Euphemism as so:
"...an indirect word or phrase that people often use to refer to something embarrassing or unpleasant, sometimes to make it seem more acceptable than it really is."
Examples of Euphemisms
He/She is dead He/She-
Kicked the bucket
Passed away
Passed on
asleep
Is pushing up the daisies
no more
resting in peace
six feet under
departed
Have Intercourse-
Make love
Sleep with
Get it on
Act like rabbits
Do it
Get laid
communists -
“democrats”
Here are some, of the euphemisms in the Bible:
Return to the ground = die
Genesis 3:19
King James Version (KJV)
19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
knew = have sex with (also 1 Kings 1:4)
Genesis 4:1
4 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.
To Uncover your fathers nakedness = is to have intercourse with ones mother
Genesis 9:
21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.
Leviticus 20:11
And the man that lieth (intercourse) with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
For more read: ( Leviticus 18:6-30 )
seed = sperm
Leviticus 15:16
16 And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.
from 'zara`' (2232); seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity:--X carnally, child............
Slept with his fathers = died
1 Kings 2:
10 So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
Sleep meaning Dead =
John 11:
11 These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleeps; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
12 Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.
13 Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.
14 Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.
........................
Definition of metaphor
noun
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable:“I had fallen through a trapdoor of depression,” said Mark, who was fond of theatrical metaphors her poetry depends on suggestion and metaphor
a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, especially something abstract:the amounts of money being lost by the company were enough to make it a metaphor for an industry that was teetering
Hebrews 12:1
12 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
The metaphor here is the Cloud. Cloud used to describe a great gathering of Christian witnesses.
Serpent =Another name for Satan.
Genesis 3
3 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
beast simply can mean a living thing; Anything living or alive.
chay
khah'-ee
from 'chayah' (2421); alive;
Definition of symbolism
noun
the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities
Revelation 12:9
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Revelation 12:9
9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Genesis 3
3 Now the serpent [/color]was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.
Ezekiel 28:
13] Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God
14You are the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so:thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that you were created, till iniquity was found in thee
And I will not get into the Symbolism of Trees and its use in God's word.
What happened in the garden is 100% factual history. The thing is, it is related in figures of speech, for example one being type is euphemisms. Because its not meant perhaps that everyone understand, but the wise and mature Christians that want to eat the meat meat of God's word will continue to study:
Hebrews 5:
11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.
12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
13 For every one that uses milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
14 But strong meat belongs to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.[/size][/color]
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