'Similes' in the Bible

therefore those using similes say -- 'Enter ye Heshbon, Let the city of Sihon be built and ready,

And he speaketh three thousand similes, and his songs are five, and the chief one;

Your remembrances are similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights.

And further, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge, and gave ear, and sought out -- he made right many similes.

and I have set My face against that man, and made him for a sign, and for similes, and I have cut him off from the midst of My people, and ye have known that I am Jehovah.

And I say, 'Ah, Lord Jehovah, They are saying of me, Is he not using similes?

And I have spoken unto the prophets, And I have multiplied vision, And by the hand of the prophets I use similes.