Some common [metonymies](../figs-metonymy/01.md) and [metaphors](../figs-metaphor/01.md) from the Bible involving body parts and human qualities are listed below in alphabetical order. The word in all capital letters identifies an Image that represents an Idea. The specific word of the Image may not appear in every verse that uses the Image, but the text will communicate somehow the concept of the Image.
> Rather we will speak the truth in love and grow up in all ways into him who is the head, Christ. Christ joins the whole ***body*** of believers together—it is held together by every supporting ligament so that the whole body grows and builds itself up in love. (Ephesians 4:15-16 ULT)
> For Mordecai the Jew was second to the King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and favored by the multitude of his ***brothers***… (Esther 10:3a ULT)
> And for the settlements among their fields, those of the sons of Judah lived in Kiriath Arba and its ***daughters***, and in Dibon and its ***daughters***, and in Jekabzeel and her settlements…. (Nehemiah 11:25 ULT)
> Do you not fear me—this is Yahweh’s declaration—or tremble before my ***face***? (Jeremiah 5:22 ULT)
> Every man of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart, or who puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his ***face***, and who then comes to a prophet—I, Yahweh, will answer him according to the number of his idols. (Ezekiel 14:4 ULT)
To put something before one’s face is to look at it intently or pay attention to it.
> So Hathak went out to Mordecai, to the open place of the city that was before the ***face*** of the gate of the king. (Esther 4:6 ULT)
> She fell before the ***face*** of his feet and wept and implored favor from him to take away the evil of Haman the Agagite and his plot that he had plotted against the Jews. (Esther 8:3b ULT)
> We have not listened to your servants the prophets who spoke in your name to our kings, our leaders, our ***fathers***, and to all the people of the land. (Daniel 9:6 ULT)
#### The HAND represents someone’s power, control, agency, or action
> And the king held out to Esther the scepter of gold which was in his hand, so Esther approached and touched the ***head*** of the scepter. (Esther 5:2b ULT)
> On the seventh day, when the ***heart*** of the king was pleased by the wine… (Esther 1:10a ULT)
#### The HEART represents someone's attitude
> Then the king Ahasuerus spoke and said to Esther the queen, "Who is he, this man? Where is this man, he whose ***heart*** is full to do thus?" (Esther 7:5 ULT)
In this context, having a full heart means to be proud or arrogant.
#### The EYES represent sight, knowledge, perception, attention, or judgment
> For the matter of the queen will go out to all the women, in order to make their husbands despised in their ***eyes***… (Esther 1:17a ULT)
> God has subjected all things under Christ’s feet and has ***made him the head*** over all things in the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all things in all ways. (Ephesians 1:22 ULT)
#### A MASTER represents anything that motivates someone to act
> No one can serve ***two masters***, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth. (Matthew 6:24 ULT)
To serve God is to be motivated by God. To serve money is to be motivated by money.
#### The MOUTH means speech or words
> A fool’s ***mouth*** is his ruin. (Proverbs 18:7 ULT)
> Oh, how I would encourage you with my ***mouth***! (Job 16:5 ULT)
> I heard you when you boasted against me with your ***mouth***; you said many things against me. I heard them. (Ezekiel 35:13 ULT)
In these examples the mouth refers to what a person says.
> See, I have sworn ***by my great name***—says Yahweh. ***My name*** will no longer be called upon by the mouths of any of the men of Judah in all the land of Egypt….” (Jeremiah 44:26 ULT)
> Your servants have come here from a land very far away, because of ***the name*** of Yahweh your God. We have heard a report about him and about everything that he did in Egypt (Joshua 9:9 ULT)
In Hebrew, a hot nose represents anger, including such images as a blast of air or smoke coming from someone's nostrils. The opposite of a "hot nose" is a "long nose". The phrase "slow to anger" in Hebrew literally means "long of nose". A long nose represents patience, meaning that it takes a long time for that person's nose to get hot.
#### A SON represents the offspring of an animal(s)
> And he sent letters by the hand of runners on horses, riders of the royal pack horses, ***sons*** of the mares… (Esther 8:10a ULT)
#### The SON OF SOMETHING represents something shares the qualities of another thing
> We all were once among these unbelievers and acted according to the evil desires of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the mind, and we were by nature ***children of wrath*** like the others. (Ephesians 2:3 ULT)