Bone and marrow imagery uses bones, marrow, joints, broken bones, dried bones, and inner frame language to describe weakness, grief, mortality, deep inward life, judgment, and resurrection hope.
Bone and marrow imagery uses bones, marrow, joints, broken bones, dried bones, and inner frame language to describe weakness, grief, mortality, deep inward life, judgment, and resurrection hope.
A bodily-depth motif in which bones and marrow represent inner structure, vitality, bodily frailty, anguish, covenant judgment, spiritual deadness, or restoration by divine life.
These examples show how Bone and Marrow Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
bone of my bones
Bone language expresses deep kinship and shared human nature.
all my bones are out of joint
Disordered bones picture extreme suffering, weakness, and bodily anguish.
my bones waxed old
The wasting of bones expresses the inward misery of concealed sin.
all my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee?
The whole embodied person is pictured as testifying to God's deliverance.
the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice
Broken bones picture penitential grief that God alone can heal into joy.
marrow to thy bones
Marrow imagery presents wisdom and fearing God as inward health and vitality.
a broken spirit drieth the bones
Dry bones depict inner desolation and loss of vitality.
the valley which was full of bones
Dry bones become an image of national death and restoration by God's Spirit.
piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow
Joints and marrow imagery presents God's word as penetrating the deepest inward places.
my bones are pierced in me
Bone pain gives poetic force to deep affliction and helplessness.
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