Bible Lexicons

Bullinger's Figures of Speech Used in the BibleBullinger's Figures of Speech

Syncrisis; or Repeated Simile

Repetition of a number of Resemblances

Syn´-cri-sis. Greek, σύγκρισις, from σύν (sun), together with, and κρίσις (crisis), a judging or deciding.

Hence, Syncrisis is the judging or comparing of one thing with another; and is used of the figure which consists of a repeated Simile, or of more than one, or of a number of separate comparisons used together.

Another name for this figure is PARATHESIS (Pa-rath´-e-sis), Greek, παράθεσις, a putting beside; from παρά (para), beside, and τιθέναι (tithenai), to place.

It was called by the Latins COMPARATIO: i.e., a bringing together and comparing.

Isaiah 1:18.-

"Though your sins be as scarlet,

They shall be as white as snow;

Though they be red like crimson,

They shall be as wool."

Isaiah 32:2.-"And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land."

Isaiah 66:12.-"For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream."