Lamb and sheep imagery uses flock animals to describe vulnerability, need for guidance, sacrificial substitution, covenant people, and Christ as the Lamb who redeems.
Lamb and sheep imagery uses flock animals to describe vulnerability, need for guidance, sacrificial substitution, covenant people, and Christ as the Lamb who redeems.
A biblical pastoral-and-sacrificial motif in which sheep and lambs may represent God’s people, helplessness, substitutionary sacrifice, Passover fulfillment, or the exalted slain Lamb.
These examples show how Lamb and Sheep Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
Lamb language raises the question of sacrificial provision.
your lamb shall be without blemish
Lamb imagery belongs to Passover substitution and deliverance.
all we like sheep have gone astray
Sheep imagery describes the wandering and sin of the people.
as a lamb to the slaughter
Lamb imagery presents the Servant’s meek suffering.
Behold the Lamb of God
Lamb imagery identifies Jesus as the sin-bearing sacrifice.
my sheep hear my voice
Sheep imagery describes Christ’s people as responsive to His voice.
as a sheep to the slaughter
The quoted sheep/lamb imagery is applied to Christ’s suffering.
Christ our passover is sacrificed for us
Passover lamb imagery grounds Christian holiness in Christ’s sacrifice.
as of a lamb without blemish
Lamb imagery describes Christ’s precious redeeming blood.
stood a Lamb as it had been slain
Apocalyptic Lamb imagery joins sacrifice, victory, and enthroned worthiness.
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