Anthropomorphisms
67 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
14 sections
- Attributed to Deity: Assisted by Tokens
- Attributed to Deity: Memory
- Attributed to Deity: Reason
- Attributed to Deity: Understanding
- Attributed to Deity: Will
- Miscellaneous Acts and States of Mind Attributed to Amazement
- Miscellaneous Acts and States of Mind Attributed to Does not Faint
- Miscellaneous Acts and States of Mind Attributed to Grieved
- Miscellaneous Acts and States of Mind Attributed to Laughing
- Miscellaneous Acts and States of Mind Attributed to Oaths
- Miscellaneous Acts and States of Mind Attributed to Resting
- Miscellaneous Acts and States of Mind Attributed to Sleeping
- Miscellaneous Acts and States of Mind Attributed to Walking
- Miscellaneous Figures
Attributed to Deity: Assisted by Tokens
- Genesis 9:16 And whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of every kind that is on the earth.”
Attributed to Deity: Memory
- Isaiah 43:26 Remind Me, let us argue the matter together. State your case, so that you may be vindicated.
- Isaiah 63:11 Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them,
Attributed to Deity: Reason
- Isaiah 1:18 “Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.
Attributed to Deity: Understanding
- Psalm 147:5 Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding has no limit.
Attributed to Deity: Will
- Romans 9:19 One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?”
Miscellaneous Acts and States of Mind Attributed to Amazement
- Isaiah 59:16 He saw that there was no man; He was amazed that there was no one to intercede. So His own arm brought salvation, and His own righteousness sustained Him.
- Isaiah 63:5 I looked, but there was no one to help; I was appalled that no one assisted. So My arm brought Me salvation, and My own wrath upheld Me.
- Mark 6:6 And He was amazed at their unbelief. And He went around from village to village, teaching the people.
Miscellaneous Acts and States of Mind Attributed to Does not Faint
- Isaiah 40:28 Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary; His understanding is beyond searching out.
Miscellaneous Acts and States of Mind Attributed to Grieved
- Genesis 6:6 And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
- Judges 10:16 So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.
- Psalm 95:10 For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”
- Hebrews 3:10 Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’
- Hebrews 3:17 And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
Miscellaneous Acts and States of Mind Attributed to Laughing
- Psalm 2:4 The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord taunts them.
- Psalm 37:13 but the Lord laughs, seeing that their day is coming.
- Psalm 59:8 But You, O LORD, laugh at them; You scoff at all the nations.
- Proverbs 1:26 in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you,
Miscellaneous Acts and States of Mind Attributed to Oaths
- Isaiah 62:8 The LORD has sworn by His right hand and by His mighty arm: “Never again will I give your grain to your enemies for food, nor will foreigners drink the new wine for which you have toiled.
- Hebrews 6:1 Therefore let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith in God,
Miscellaneous Acts and States of Mind Attributed to Resting
- Genesis 2:2–3 And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work. …
- Exodus 20:11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, but on the seventh day He rested. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.
- Exodus 31:17 It is a sign between Me and the Israelites forever; for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, but on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.’”
- Deuteronomy 5:14 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work— neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox or donkey or any of your livestock, nor the …
- Hebrews 4:4 For somewhere He has spoken about the seventh day in this manner: “And on the seventh day God rested from all His works.”
- Hebrews 4:10 For whoever enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from His.
Miscellaneous Acts and States of Mind Attributed to Sleeping
- Psalm 44:23 Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.
- Psalm 78:61 He delivered His strength to captivity, and His splendor to the hand of the adversary.
Miscellaneous Acts and States of Mind Attributed to Walking
- Genesis 3:8 Then the man and his wife heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the breeze of the day, and they hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
- Leviticus 26:12 I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be My people.
- Deuteronomy 23:14 For the LORD your God walks throughout your camp to protect you and deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, lest He see anything unclean among you and turn away from you.
- Job 22:14 Thick clouds veil Him so He does not see us as He traverses the vault of heaven.’
- Habakkuk 3:15 You trampled the sea with Your horses, churning the great waters.
Miscellaneous Figures
- Genesis 2:2–3 And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work. …
- Genesis 2:19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
- Genesis 6:6 And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
- Genesis 9:16 And whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of every kind that is on the earth.”
- Genesis 11:5 Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.
- Genesis 11:7 Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
- Genesis 18:17–19 And the LORD said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do? …
- Genesis 18:21 I will go down to see if their actions fully justify the outcry that has reached Me. If not, I will find out.”
- Genesis 18:33 When the LORD had finished speaking with Abraham, He departed, and Abraham returned home.
- Genesis 19:29 So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of the catastrophe that destroyed the cities where he had lived.
- Genesis 22:12 “Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him,” said the angel, “for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me.”
- Genesis 28:13 And there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you now lie.
- Genesis 35:13 Then God went up from the place where He had spoken with him.
- Exodus 2:24 So God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
- Exodus 3:8 I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey— the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, …
- Exodus 14:24 At morning watch, however, the LORD looked down on the army of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, and He threw their camp into confusion.
- Exodus 20:5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
- Exodus 31:17 It is a sign between Me and the Israelites forever; for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, but on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.’”
- Exodus 32:14 So the LORD relented from the calamity He had threatened to bring on His people.
- Numbers 11:25 Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and He took some of the Spirit that was on Moses and placed that Spirit on the seventy elders. As the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied — but they never did so again.
- Judges 2:18 Whenever the LORD raised up a judge for the Israelites, He was with that judge and saved them from the hands of their enemies while the judge was still alive; for the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning under those who …
- 1 Samuel 15:35 And to the day of his death, Samuel never again visited Saul. Samuel mourned for Saul, and the LORD regretted that He had made Saul king over Israel.
- 2 Samuel 24:16 But when the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was by …
- 1 Chronicles 21:15 Then God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem, but as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and relented from the calamity, and He said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time …
- Psalm 31:2 Incline Your ear to me; come quickly to my rescue. Be my rock of refuge, the stronghold of my deliverance.
- Psalm 33:6 By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and all the stars by the breath of His mouth.
- Psalm 35:1–3 Contend with my opponents, O LORD; fight against those who fight against me. …
- Psalm 36:7 How precious is Your loving devotion, O God, that the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings!
- Psalm 57:1 Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy, for in You my soul takes refuge. In the shadow of Your wings I will take shelter until the danger has passed.
- Psalm 68:17 The chariots of God are tens of thousands — thousands of thousands are they; the Lord is in His sanctuary as He was at Sinai.
- Psalm 94:9 He who affixed the ear, can He not hear? He who formed the eye, can He not see?
- Psalm 121:4 Behold, the Protector of Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
- Isaiah 1:15 When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
- Ezekiel 1:24 When the creatures moved, I heard the sound of their wings like the roar of many waters, like the voice of the Almighty, like the tumult of an army. When they stood still, they lowered their wings.
- Ezekiel 1:28 The appearance of the brilliant light all around Him was like that of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell facedown and heard a voice speaking.
- Habakkuk 1:13 Your eyes are too pure to look upon evil, and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do You tolerate the faithless? Why are You silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?
- 1 Peter 3:12 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.