Metonymy
Metonymy
Hebrew contains idioms that are semantically motivated by conceptual metaphor forms or Metonymy which is the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse races.
Metonymy is a figure of speech in which something is referred to by the name of something closely associated with it.
For example, “The White House announced…” uses the White House to mean the U.S. president or administration.
Metonymy is a figure of speech in which something is referred to by the name of something closely associated with it.
For example, “The White House announced…” uses the White House to mean the U.S. president or administration.
A metaphor or Metonymy are symbols that act as something representing ideas and concepts.
Knowing these unique representative symbols in the sacred texts and their meanings and what these forms of expression represent are often essential in the process of understanding the meaning of the authors of the text and the spirit by which the were written.
While we can study to get a better understanding of words as they were intendeď the key to understanding inspired scripture is to be inspired by the same spirit that wrote when we seek to read the text.
Those tactics and ideas that block the light of that spirit blind the seeker so that in their seeing they do not see.[1]
- ↑ See and hear
- Genesis 42:21 :And they said one to another, We [are] verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us. And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required."
- Deuteronomy 1:43 "So I spake unto you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and went presumptuously up into the hill."
- Deuteronomy 30:17 "But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;"
- 1 Samuel 8:18 "And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day."
- Psalms 95:7 “7 For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,”
- John 10:2, 5 “2 But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. 4 And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. 5 And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.”
- John 10:27 “27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:”