Figures of Speech in the Bible

Appointed Feasts and Holy Convocation Imagery in the Bible

Appointed feasts and holy convocation imagery uses sacred days, memorial meals, pilgrimage festivals, and appointed seasons to describe remembrance, redemption, covenant joy, judgment, and kingdom fulfillment.

Simple definition

Appointed feasts and holy convocation imagery uses sacred days, memorial meals, pilgrimage festivals, and appointed seasons to describe remembrance, redemption, covenant joy, judgment, and kingdom fulfillment.

Technical nameFeasts of the LORD, holy convocations, memorial festival, and sacred calendar imagery
Alternate namesfeast imagery; holy convocation imagery; appointed season imagery; festival imagery
Reader categorySacred calendar, remembrance, and joy / Feast imagery
Bullinger classBiblical imagery and motif forms
Source hintWave 28 draft-normalized sacred-calendar imagery review; distinguish from banquet-table imagery by focusing on appointed seasons and covenant remembrance.
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Technical definition

A sacred-calendar motif in which appointed feasts and convocations structure communal memory, covenant identity, worship assembly, redemptive typology, joy before God, and eschatological gathering.

Publication note: Examples are curated from the final Wave 46 source state. Some examples carry review notes where final Bible-text stream verification may still be prudent before public release.

Scripture examples

These examples show how Appointed Feasts and Holy Convocation Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.

Exod. 12:14
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ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD

Passover is a memorial feast of redemption and deliverance.

Source: Draft-normalized sanctuary/priesthood/covenant-sign/sacred time imagery review — Sanctuary, Priesthood, Covenant Sign, and Sacred Time Imagery Forms
Review status: draft_normalized | Draft-normalized; source/context check before publication.
Exod. 23:14
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Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me

The festival rhythm images ordered covenant worship before God.

Source: Draft-normalized sanctuary/priesthood/covenant-sign/sacred time imagery review — Sanctuary, Priesthood, Covenant Sign, and Sacred Time Imagery Forms
Review status: draft_normalized | Draft-normalized; source/context check before publication.
Lev. 23:2
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the feasts of the LORD... holy convocations

The appointed feasts form sacred assemblies around God’s calendar.

Source: Draft-normalized sanctuary/priesthood/covenant-sign/sacred time imagery review — Sanctuary, Priesthood, Covenant Sign, and Sacred Time Imagery Forms
Review status: draft_normalized | Draft-normalized; source/context check before publication.
Deut. 16:3
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the bread of affliction

Festival food preserves the memory of deliverance from Egypt.

Source: Draft-normalized sanctuary/priesthood/covenant-sign/sacred time imagery review — Sanctuary, Priesthood, Covenant Sign, and Sacred Time Imagery Forms
Review status: draft_normalized | Draft-normalized; source/context check before publication.
Neh. 8:10
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eat the fat, and drink the sweet

Holy-day celebration becomes an image of restored joy under the word.

Source: Draft-normalized sanctuary/priesthood/covenant-sign/sacred time imagery review — Sanctuary, Priesthood, Covenant Sign, and Sacred Time Imagery Forms
Review status: draft_normalized | Draft-normalized; source/context check before publication.
Ps. 42:4
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with the voice of joy and praise... that kept holyday

Festival memory intensifies longing for worship with God’s people.

Source: Draft-normalized sanctuary/priesthood/covenant-sign/sacred time imagery review — Sanctuary, Priesthood, Covenant Sign, and Sacred Time Imagery Forms
Review status: draft_normalized | Draft-normalized; source/context check before publication.
Isa. 25:6
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a feast of fat things

Feast imagery pictures the LORD’s final provision and victory.

Source: Draft-normalized sanctuary/priesthood/covenant-sign/sacred time imagery review — Sanctuary, Priesthood, Covenant Sign, and Sacred Time Imagery Forms
Review status: draft_normalized | Draft-normalized; source/context check before publication.
Zech. 14:16
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to keep the feast of tabernacles

The feast becomes an eschatological image of nations worshiping the King.

Source: Draft-normalized sanctuary/priesthood/covenant-sign/sacred time imagery review — Sanctuary, Priesthood, Covenant Sign, and Sacred Time Imagery Forms
Review status: draft_normalized | Draft-normalized; source/context check before publication.
Luke 22:15
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I have desired to eat this passover with you

Jesus frames his impending suffering within Passover fulfilment.

Source: Draft-normalized sanctuary/priesthood/covenant-sign/sacred time imagery review — Sanctuary, Priesthood, Covenant Sign, and Sacred Time Imagery Forms
Review status: draft_normalized | Draft-normalized; source/context check before publication.
1 Cor. 5:8
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Therefore let us keep the feast

Feast imagery is applied ethically to sincerity and truth in Christ.

Source: Draft-normalized sanctuary/priesthood/covenant-sign/sacred time imagery review — Sanctuary, Priesthood, Covenant Sign, and Sacred Time Imagery Forms
Review status: draft_normalized | Draft-normalized; source/context check before publication.

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