Friend and companion imagery uses friendship, counsel, table fellowship, faithful wounds, or betrayal by a close companion to picture loyalty, intimacy, wisdom, or treachery.
Friend and companion imagery uses friendship, counsel, table fellowship, faithful wounds, or betrayal by a close companion to picture loyalty, intimacy, wisdom, or treachery.
A relational-loyalty motif in which friend, companion, familiar friend, counselor, table companion, kiss, wound, or betrayal language signifies literal friendship, covenant loyalty, wise counsel, spiritual intimacy, false affection, or treacherous rejection.
These examples show how Friend, Companion, Counselor, and Betrayal Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
as a man speaketh unto his friend
Moses communion with the LORD is compared to direct speech with a friend.
my familiar friends have forgotten me
Forsaken friendship intensifies Jobs suffering.
mine own familiar friend... hath lifted up his heel
Betrayal is sharpened because it comes from a trusted table companion.
A friend loveth at all times
True friendship is pictured as steady loyalty in adversity.
a friend that sticketh closer than a brother
A faithful friend may surpass ordinary kinship bonds.
Faithful are the wounds of a friend
Painful correction can be an act of loyal friendship.
Friend, wherefore art thou come?
Jesus addresses Judas under friend language at the moment of betrayal.
lay down his life for his friends
The highest friendship is measured by self-giving love.
I have called you friends
Jesus names his disciples friends because he has disclosed the Fathers will.
he was called the Friend of God
Abrahams faith is described through covenant friendship with God.
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