5 occurrences in 12 translations

'Figures' in the Bible

“I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. A time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures, but I will tell you plainly about the Father.

His disciples said, "Look, now you are speaking plainly and not in obscure figures of speech!

Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.

your human infirmity leads me to employ these familiar figures--and just as you once surrendered your faculties into bondage to Impurity and ever-increasing disregard of Law, so you must now surrender them into bondage to Righteousness ever advancing towards perfect holiness.

For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
ἀντίτυπον 
Antitupos 
Usage: 2

מקלעת 
Miqla`ath 
Usage: 4

סמל סמל 
Cemel 
Usage: 5

תּבנית 
Tabniyth 
Usage: 20

μετασχηματίζω 
metaschematizo 
Usage: 5

παραβολή 
Parabole 
Usage: 38

τύπος 
Tupos 
Usage: 16

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