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Examples Of Metaphors Of Water In The Bible

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The lecture argues metaphor is a comparison of one thing to another, but we can frame what we want to say and understand. The bible has metaphors’ about water, which water can be interpreted in different ways. “Language, Metaphor, and Cognition” gives us a few metaphors, and the metaphor given of the bible is:

“Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.”

Someone who is religious will interpret it as “worshipping the lord will grant them eternal salvation.” A scientist will take this as common sense because water is the source of life for organisms. The

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