Grass: Figurative
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Psalm 90:5,6
You carry them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which grows up.
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Isaiah 40:6
The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
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1 Peter 1:24
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass wither, and the flower thereof falls away:
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James 1:10,11
But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
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Strong's Hebrew
7114. qatsar -- to be short
... A primitive root; to dock off, ie Curtail (transitive or intransitive, literal or
figurative); especially to harvest (grass or grain) -- X at all, cut down ...
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Other Passages Out of the Prophets Applied to the Resurrection of ...
... enough seem to have consoled their figurative despair with a figurative promise. ...
shall rejoice, and your bones shall spring up like the grass," [7491] because ...
/.../on the resurrection of the flesh/chapter xxxi other passages out of.htm

Origen's Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew
... The Sitting Down on the Grass. The Division into Companies. ... 8. The Leaven Figurative
Like the Water Spoken of by Jesus to the Woman of Samaria. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/origen/origens commentary on the gospel of matthew/

Elements of Prophetic Interpretation.
... (c.) "The figurative terms are always ... At others, the nature of the resemblance is
indicated. Examples.""As for man, his days are as grass." Psa.103:15. ...
/.../a brief commentary on the apocalypse/elements of prophetic interpretation.htm

Psalm LXXII.
... it is perceived, that the very word Salomon is used in a figurative sense, so ... city
of God, that is, from the Church, they may flourish like grass; but grass ...
/.../augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm lxxii.htm

Angelic Comforters.
... stroke"its aching hearts are smitten and withered like the grass"but new ... too many
positive statements on the subject to permit a figurative interpretation. ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/macduff/memories of bethany/xxii angelic comforters.htm

Holding Fast and Held Fast
... as the sun, up in the heavens there, sends all his beams into the tiniest daisy
on the grass, as if ... We might run out into any number of figurative illustrations ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture g/holding fast and held fast.htm

The Shepherd King of Israel
... and great stones that fling a black shadow over the dewy grass at their base ... Here
is the figurative expression of the great evangelical principle, that works of ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture j/the shepherd king of israel.htm

Against Embellishing the Body.
... us not to approach to another's river, meaning by the figurative expression "another's ...
and the rest of the animals, spring and bound from the grass and meadows ...
/.../clement/the instructor paedagogus/chapter ii against embellishing the body.htm

Parallels from the Prophets to Illustrate Christ's Teaching in the ...
... nor gather into storehouses, and are yet fed" by Himself; whose "lilies and grass
also toil ... Even if it be but figurative fire, yet, from the very fact that he ...
/.../the five books against marcion/chapter xxix parallels from the prophets.htm

The Quotation in Matt. Ii. 6.
... But the figurative element in the representation goes still farther. ... 6; the relative
pronoun [Hebrew: awr] must be referred to the grass, mentioned immediately ...
/.../hengstenberg/christology of the old testament/the quotation in matt ii.htm

Resources
What are the greatest promises in the Bible? | GotQuestions.org

How should Christians view religious liberty? | GotQuestions.org

Do the news reports of rivers turning blood red have anything to do with the end times? | GotQuestions.org

Grass: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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