Phrases to be covered

Here’s a rough list of phrases I intend to cover:

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OT Phrases

In the beginning

Let there be light

Let us make man in our own image.

Be fruitful and multiply

It was very good

God rested

The breath of life

The garden of Eden

Adam

Spare Rib

Bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh

To leave and cleave

One flesh.

They were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Forbidden fruit

Pride goeth before a fall

Fig leaves

Dust to Dust

Sweat of your brow

Eve

East of Eden

Cherubim

How are the mighty fallen

Knowing… In the biblical sense (Carnal knowledge)

Am I my brother’s keeper?

The Land of Nod

Begat

Methuselah

Noah

Two by Two

Forty days and forty nights

Olive leaf

Rainbow

Tower of Babel

Abraham

Fear not

Covenant

Circumcision

Sodom and Gomorrah

Fire and brimstone

Test of faith

Coat of many colours

the fat of the land (Gen 45:18)

A stranger in a strange land

Burning bush

I AM WHO I AM

Land flowing with milk and honey

Putting words in his mouth (Ex 4:15)

Taskmasters (Bricks without straw)

Let my people go

Plagues (of biblical proportions)

Hard hearted

Passover lamb

Red sea

Fleshpots

Bread of heaven – Manna

I bare you on eagle’s wings (cf Is 40)

Thou shalt have no other gods before me

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image

I the LORD thy God am a jealous God

Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Honour thy father and thy mother

Thou shalt not covet

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth

Golden Calf (“Out came this calf”)

Stiff necked

Face to face

Longsuffering

High Priest

Atonement

Peace offering

Unclean, unclean

Scapegoat (Bear their iniquity)

Love thy neighbour as thyself

Spy out the land

Wilderness wanderings (murmuring)

Brazen serpent

What hath God wrought

Fell flat on his face

Balaam’s Ass

Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength

Man does not live by bread alone

The apple of his eye

Kiss of death

Be strong and courageous

Walls of Jericho

Shibboleth

Samson and Delilah

Everyone did as they saw fit

Shelter under the wings (Ruth 2:12)

Messiah

God save the king

A man after his own heart

Goliath

David and Bathsheba

The way of all flesh (all the earth)

Wisdom of Solomon

The Queen of Sheba

Put your house in order

Carried away (exile)

The LORD gave and the LORD hath taken away (not “giveth and… taketh away”)

Job’s Comforters (miserable comforters)

Man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upwards

I am escaped with the skin of my teeth  (Skin and bone)

I know that my Redeemer liveth

Gird up thy loins (Job 38)

I repent in dust and ashes

Job died old and full of days

Blessed (is the Man)

The heavens declare the glory of God

My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken me

Laughed to scorn

The LORD is my Shepherd

The valley of the shadow

My cup runneth over

The ends of the earth

Bite the dust

Three score year and ten

Strength to strength

As for man, his days are like grass, he flourishes like a flower of the field

Wits’ end

Praise the LORD

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge

Trust in the LORD with all thine heart and lean not on thine own understanding

Soft answer turns away wrath

Spare the rod and spoil the child

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

To everything there is a season…

Nothing new under the sun

Eat drink and be merry

Two are better than one

Fly in the ointment (Ecc 10:1)

A little bird told me (Ecc 10:20)

Cast thy bread upon the waters

Of making many books there is no end

My beloved is mine and I am his

White as snow (eg Is 1:18)

It shall come to pass

Beat swords into ploughshares

Woe is me

Immanuel

Unto Us a Child is Born

The wolf shall lie down with the lamb.

A drop in the bucket

Take root

Beast of burden

Seeing eye to eye

Led like a Lamb to the slaughter

Rise and shine

Bind up the broken-hearted

No rest for the wicked

Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard

Holier than thou

A new heavens and a new earth

Be horribly afraid (Jer 2:12)

Can a leopard change its spots? (Jer 13:23)

Great is thy faithfulness

Sour grapes (Ezek 18)

Thus saith the LORD (Ezek 37)

Feet of clay

The writing is on the wall (“Weighed in the balances and found wanting”)

Daniel in the lion’s den

Reap the whirlwind

Sackcloth and ashes (eg Jonah 3)

The desire of all nations

Prisoners of hope

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Christmas Phrases

Thou shalt call his name JESUS: (for he shall save his people from their sins.)

Hail, thou that art highly favoured, (the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.)

My soul doth magnify the Lord

wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.

And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. …

For mine eyes have seen thy salvation

There came wise men from the east

They presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense and myrrh.

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Other Gospel Phrases

In the beginning was the Word

The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us

Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world

Water into wine

Shining light

Baptism of fire

To fulfil all righteousness

The heavens were opened

It is written

Fishers of men

Preaching the gospel

Physician heal thyself

Verily, verily I say unto thee

Blessed are the poor in spirit

Blessed are they that mourn

Blessed are the meek

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

Great is your reward in heaven

The salt of the earth

The light of the world

Keep you light under a bushel

Jot and tittle

Ye have heard that it was said…  But I say unto you,

Hell fire

If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out… if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off

Let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay

Turn the other cheek

Go the extra mile

Love your enemies

Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth

Our Father which art in heaven

Hallowed be thy name

Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil

For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also

Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Take no thought for your life

Consider the lilies of the field

But seek ye first the kingdom of God…

Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

Casting pearls before swine.

Seek and ye shall find

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you

Strait and narrow

Wolf in sheep’s clothing

By their fruits ye shall know them

Built on sand

Outer darkness

Weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth

Born again

God so loved the world…

…that whosoever believeth….

O ye of little faith

Be of good cheer

They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick. (Luke 5:31)

A house divided against itself cannot stand

I send you forth as lambs among wolves. (Luke 10:3)

Wise as serpents, innocent as doves

He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

Even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. (Luke 12)

From the housetops

My name is Legion, for we are many

Good Samaritan

Friend of sinners

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

He that hath ears

Fell by the way side (Seed falling on stony ground)

Wheat and tares

Pearl of great price

The head of John the Baptist.

A man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.(Luke 12)

The crumbs under thy table “the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.”

highways and hedges (Luke 14:23)

cross to bear

Lost sheep

Prodigal son

The far country

Fatted calf

safe and sound

Dives and Lazarus

Feeding the Five Thousand

I am the Bread of Life

The keys of the kingdom

Get thee behind me Satan

Taking up your cross

What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Transfigured

Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.

He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

I am the Good Shepherd

What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Suffer little children, and forbid them not, (to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.)

Regeneration

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

Jesus wept

A millstone about his neck

The first shall be last and the last shall be first (Matt 20)

Many are called, few are chosen (Matt 22)

Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.

Out of the mouths of babes

Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s

Heavy burdens, grievous to be borne

Blind guides (the blind leading the blind)

Strain out a gnat and swallow a camel

Whited sepulchres

How often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

To catch him in his words.

Wars and rumours of wars

If [one] had never been born

Signs of the times – Red sky at night

Talents

Well done, thou good and faithful servant

Sheep and goats

Washing the disciples’ feet

In my Father’s house are many mansions

I am the way, the truth and the life

I am the Vine, ye are the branches

Greater love hath no man than this

This is my body

This is my blood

Abba, Father

Let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.

The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Betrayed with a kiss

Thirty pieces of silver

My kingdom is not of this world

Hail King of the Jews

Crucify him, crucify him. (Luke 23:21)

Pilate washed his hands

Crown of thorns

Father, forgive them they know not what they do (Luke 23:34)

It is finished

He gave up the ghost

He is not here, he is risen.

Doubting Thomas

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost

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Rest of NT

The fruit of his loins

Cut to the heart

Damascus Road Experience

Turned the world upside down

In Him we live and move and have our being

It is better to give than to receive

Saints

A law unto themselves

Hope against hope

God forbid

The wages of sin is death

Vengeance is mine

O wretched man that I am!

The powers that be (Rom 13)

Stumbling block

The time is short

All things to all men

Faith, hope and love.

Faith that can move mountains

Through a glass darkly

In the twinkling of an eye

O death where is thy sting

Letter of the law

Anathema

Suffer fools gladly

A thorn in the flesh

Fallen from grace

As you sow, so shall you reap

The unsearchable riches of Christ

Let not the sun go down on your wrath

Passeth all understanding

Bowels of mercies

A labour of love

Filthy lucre

Old wives’ tales

Love of money is the root of all evil

Itching ears

Fought the good fight

Twoedged sword (Heb 4)

Once and for all

A multitude of sins (James 5:20)

Dearly beloved

God is love

Alpha and Omega

Bottomless pit

Armageddon

Babylon the great is fallen

Alleluia