Topic
ANTHROPOMORPHISMS
(Figures of speech, which attribute human forms, acts, and affections to God)
Passages on this topic · 71
- Genesis 2:2
On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.
- Genesis 2:3
God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done.
- Genesis 2:19
Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature became its name.
- Genesis 3:8
They heard Yahweh God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.
- Genesis 6:6
Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.
- Genesis 9:16
The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”
- Genesis 11:5
Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
- Genesis 11:7
Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
- Genesis 18:17
Yahweh said, “Will I hide from Abraham what I do,
- Genesis 18:18
since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?
- Genesis 18:19
For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”
- Genesis 18:21
I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know.”
- Genesis 18:33
Yahweh went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.
- Genesis 19:29
When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
- Genesis 22:12
He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”
- Genesis 28:13
Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, “I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon you lie, to you will I give it, and to your offspring.
- Genesis 35:13
God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him.
- Exodus 2:24
God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
- Exodus 3:8
I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
- Exodus 14:24
In the morning watch, Yahweh looked out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army.
- Exodus 20:5
you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
- Exodus 20:11
for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.
- Exodus 31:17
It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.’”
- Exodus 32:14
Yahweh repented of the evil which he said he would do to his people.
- Leviticus 26:12
I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.
- Numbers 11:25
Yahweh came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.
- Deuteronomy 5:14
but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God, in which you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.
- Deuteronomy 23:14
for Yahweh your God walks in the middle of your camp, to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you. Therefore your camp shall be holy, that he may not see an unclean thing in you, and turn away from you.
- Judges 2:18
When Yahweh raised up judges for them, then Yahweh was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it grieved Yahweh because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and troubled them.
- Judges 10:16
They put away the foreign gods from among them, and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
- 1 Samuel 15:35
Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death; for Samuel mourned for Saul: and Yahweh grieved that he had made Saul king over Israel.
- 2 Samuel 24:16
When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
- 1 Chronicles 21:15
God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
- Job 22:14
Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn’t see. He walks on the vault of the sky.’
- Psalms 2:4
He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.
- Psalms 31:2
Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me.
- Psalms 33:6
By Yahweh’s word, the heavens were made; all their army by the breath of his mouth.
- Psalms 35:1
By David. Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.
- Psalms 35:2
Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help.
- Psalms 35:3
Brandish the spear and block those who pursue me. Tell my soul, “I am your salvation.”
- Psalms 36:7
How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.
- Psalms 37:13
The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.
- Psalms 44:23
Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don’t reject us forever.
- Psalms 57:1
For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A poem by David, when he fled from Saul, in the cave. Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge, until disaster has passed.
- Psalms 59:8
But you, Yahweh, laugh at them. You scoff at all the nations.
- Psalms 68:17
The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands. The Lord is among them, from Sinai, into the sanctuary.
- Psalms 78:61
and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary’s hand.
- Psalms 94:9
He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear? He who formed the eye, won’t he see?
- Psalms 95:10
Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, “It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways.”
- Psalms 121:4
Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
- Psalms 147:5
Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. His understanding is infinite.
- Proverbs 1:26
I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you;
- Isaiah 1:15
When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
- Isaiah 1:18
“Come now, and let us reason together,” says Yahweh: “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 40:28
Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, The Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.
- Isaiah 43:26
Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Declare your case, that you may be justified.
- Isaiah 59:16
He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor. Therefore his own arm brought salvation to him; and his righteousness sustained him.
- Isaiah 62:8
Yahweh has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, “Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies; and foreigners will not drink your new wine, for which you have labored;
- Isaiah 63:5
I looked, and there was no one to help; and I wondered that there was no one to uphold: therefore my own arm brought salvation to me; and my own wrath upheld me.
- Isaiah 63:11
Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying, “Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put his Holy Spirit among them?”
- Ezekiel 1:24
When they went, I heard the noise of their wings like the noise of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a noise of tumult like the noise of an army: when they stood, they let down their wings.
- Ezekiel 1:28
As the appearance of the rainbow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. This was the appearance of the likeness of Yahweh’s glory. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.
- Habakkuk 1:13
You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,
- Habakkuk 3:15
You trampled the sea with your horses, churning mighty waters.
- Mark 6:6
He marveled because of their unbelief. He went around the villages teaching.
- Romans 9:19
You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”
- Hebrews 3:10
Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, ‘They always err in their heart, but they didn’t know my ways;’
- Hebrews 3:17
With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
- Hebrews 4:4
For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, “God rested on the seventh day from all his works”;
- Hebrews 4:10
For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.
- 1 Peter 3:12
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
From Nave’s Topical Bible (public domain).