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On-line Resource Idioms (Robert I. Bradshaw)View in PDF format pdf
Book or monograph Bullinger: Figures of Speech Used in the BibleE.W. Bullinger, Figures of Speech Used in the Bible. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1968. Hbk. ISBN: 0801005590. Covers over 200 idioms used in Scripture.
Article in Journal or Book Weston W. Fields, "The Translation of Biblical Live and Dead Metaphors and Similes and Other Idioms," Grace Theological Journal 2.2 (1981): 191-204.
On-line Resource C.F. Pfeiffer, "Figures of Speech in Human Language," Bulletin of the Evangelical Theological Society 2.4 (Fall 1959): 17-21. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]

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