Audible-gesture imagery uses clapping, stamping, or hand-striking sounds to picture joy, scorn, grief, judgment, or creation’s praise.
Audible-gesture imagery uses clapping, stamping, or hand-striking sounds to picture joy, scorn, grief, judgment, or creation’s praise.
An embodied-sound motif in which clapping hands, stamping feet, smiting hands, or other audible gestures signify worshipful joy, contempt, horror, judgment announcement, grief, or poetic participation of creation.
These examples show how Clapping Hands, Stamping Feet, and Audible-Gesture Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king
Clapping accompanies royal recognition and public acclamation.
Men shall clap their hands at him
Clapping pictures contempt at the downfall of the wicked.
O clap your hands, all ye people
Clapping becomes an embodied summons to joyful praise.
Let the floods clap their hands
Creation is poetically summoned into audible praise before the LORD.
all the trees of the field shall clap their hands
Creation’s clapping pictures joyful restoration and peace.
All that pass by clap their hands at thee
Clapping becomes public scorn over Jerusalem’s desolation.
Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot
Audible gestures enact horror over Israel’s abominations and judgment.
smite thine hands together
Hand-smite gestures intensify the prophecy of the sword.
thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet
Ammon’s gestures display malicious rejoicing over Israel.
all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee
Clapping marks the nations’ relief at Nineveh’s incurable fall.
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