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Concordances
Nave Topical Bible
• Figure
Dictionaries
Spurgeon's Illustration Collection
• Fog: a Figure of Our Partial Knowledge
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Figured Stone
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Hour (Figurative)
King James Dictionary
• Figured
• Figure
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Figure
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Winged Human Figure
• Human Figure, Winged
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Figure
Webster Dictionary
• Figuring
• Figured
• Figure
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Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Figurate Numbers
• Figure of the Earth
• Relief (Figure)
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Figure
Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• Figures
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Figure
• Jejumi (Figure-Treading)
• Waxen Figures
The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Alliteration and Kindred Figures
Lexicons
• ܐܶܣܟ݁ܺܡܳܐ
• ܨܰܠܡܳܐ
• ἀντίτυπος
• μετασχηματίζω
• παραβολή
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• דְּמותּ
• מְלִיצָה
• מִקְלַעַת
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(1):

(a.) Used in a sense that is tropical, as a metaphor; not literal; - applied to words and expressions.

(2):

(a.) Relating to the representation of form or figure by drawing, carving, etc. See Figure, n., 2.

(3):

(a.) Abounding in figures of speech; flowery; florid; as, a highly figurative description.

(4):

(a.) Representing by a figure, or by resemblance; typical; representative.