'Figure' in the Bible

Another saying of His was this: "How are we to picture the Kingdom of God? or by what figure of speech shall we represent it?

After He had left the crowd and gone indoors, His disciples began to ask Him about this figure of speech.

Startled by his statement, she tried to figure out what his greeting meant.

This figure of speech Jesus spoke to them, but they did not understand what those things were which He had been saying to them.

His disciples *said, “Lo, now You are speaking plainly and are not using a figure of speech.

'The tabernacle of the testimony was among our fathers in the wilderness, according as He did direct, who is speaking to Moses, to make it according to the figure that he had seen;

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.

And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.

Now these things happened to them as an example and warning [to us]; they were written for our instruction [to admonish and equip us], upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

and having been found in figure as a man, humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, and that the death of the cross.

Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;

Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.

The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: