Hand and arm imagery uses hands, right hands, outstretched arms, and mighty arms to describe action, power, protection, deliverance, ownership, judgment, blessing, and human dependence.
Hand and arm imagery uses hands, right hands, outstretched arms, and mighty arms to describe action, power, protection, deliverance, ownership, judgment, blessing, and human dependence.
An agency-and-power motif in which hand and arm language represents ability, authority, intervention, possession, covenant deliverance, blessing, judgment, or humble submission under divine rule.
These examples show how Hand and Arm Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
with a stretched out arm
The outstretched arm pictures decisive covenant deliverance from bondage.
with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm
Hand and arm language summarizes God's powerful saving intervention in the exodus.
his right hand, and his holy arm
The right hand and holy arm portray divine victory accomplished by God himself.
his arm shall rule for him
The arm of the Lord signifies sovereign power and ruling authority.
to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
The revealed arm points to God's saving action, unexpectedly disclosed in the servant.
as the clay is in the potter's hand
The hand image communicates God's right to shape and govern his people.
he hath shewed strength with his arm
Mary uses arm imagery for God's mighty reversal of the proud and lowly.
neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand
The hand pictures secure possession and protection of Christ's sheep.
by stretching forth thine hand to heal
The stretched hand becomes an image of divine action confirming gospel witness.
under the mighty hand of God
The mighty hand calls believers to humble submission under God's sovereign care.
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