Cord and rope imagery uses bands, ropes, lines, cords, and bonds to picture restraint, sin, rescue, covenant mercy, shared strength, rebellion against God, or being drawn by love.
Cord and rope imagery uses bands, ropes, lines, cords, and bonds to picture restraint, sin, rescue, covenant mercy, shared strength, rebellion against God, or being drawn by love.
A binding-line motif in which cords and ropes may signify captivity, sin-entanglement, rescue, social strength, covenant token, rebellion, loving guidance, or practical deliverance.
These examples show how Cord, Rope, and Binding-Line Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
this line of scarlet thread
The scarlet cord marks Rahabs household for preservation.
bound him with two new cords
New cords picture human restraint that God enables Samson to break.
let us break their bands asunder
Rebellious rulers portray Gods rule as cords to cast away.
holden with the cords of his sins
Sin is pictured as cords that bind the sinner.
a threefold cord is not quickly broken
Cord imagery pictures the strength of joined fellowship.
draw iniquity with cords of vanity
Sinners are pictured as dragging evil with deceptive cords.
put these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords
Ropes become the practical means of Jeremiahs rescue from the pit.
cords of a man, with bands of love
The LORDs care is pictured as gentle cords of loving guidance.
a scourge of small cords
Cords become an instrument of cleansing judgment in the temple.
cut off the ropes of the boat
Cut ropes mark decisive abandonment of a false means of escape.
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