Traditional labels
Apostrophe = Strong exclamations, listed in Issue 09
Apostrophe and Diatribe = Specific person or situation but intended generic application, listed in Issue 05
Chiasmus = Focusing sets, listed in Issue 17
Dead metaphors = References with an implicit intended meanings, listed in Issue 03
Couplets (and some doublets) = Co-working sets, listed in ssue 15
Doublets = Tell and tell again sets, Issue 14
Euphemism = Tasteful generic references instead of specific references, for propriety, Issue 13
Hendiadys = Linked sets, Issue 16
Humanizations/Personifications = (References to non-human things as if they were humans),
Issue 12
Hyperbole = Overstatements = (Affirmations of a condition being very important or very complete), Issue 43
Irony = Statement that implies a very different meaning (than such a statement might normally mean), Issue 22
Litotes = Implicit emphatic extra-ordinary by negating an undesirable, Issue 18
also
Implied emphatic urging by negating undesirable, Issue 54
Metaphors = Metonymies = References with implicit intended meanings, Issue 03
Negative Understatements = Affirming that an undesirable condition or situation does not exist
in order affirm that a desirable condition or situation actually exists, Issue 44
or
An implied emphatic desirable concept communicated by negating an undesirable concept Issue 8
or
Implied emphatic extra-ordinary concept by negating an ordinary desirable concept, Issue 18
Passives = Clauses with no explicit subject or object, Issue 21
Personifications/Humanizations = References to non-human things as if they were humans, Issue 12
Positive understatements = Strong affirmation of ordinary concept to imply an extra-ordinary concept, Issue 19
Prophecies = References to events or situations that imply a meaning ‘to authenticate’, Issue 63
Quadruplets = Tell and tell again sets, Issue 14
Questions = Questions in the New Testament, Issue 02
Rhetorical questions = Questions in the New Testament, Issue 02
Sarcasm = Provoking someone, Issue 42
Similes = References with implicit intended meanings, Issue 03
Synecdoches = References with implicit intended meanings, Issue 03
Triplets = Tell and tell again sets, Issue 14
Positive understatements, Issue 38
Labels in this database
Arguing against a PROPOSED event, a PROPOSED situation or a PROPOSED condition or a PROPOSED attitude, Issue 54
Author’s comments and parenthetical notes, Issue 77
A communicator commented on a person, an attitude, an event or a situation
or a condition within his document.
Beginnings of the documents, Issue 45
Benedictions, Issue 47
Citations and allusions to other documents, Issue 01
Co-working sets (Couplets, doublets), Issue 15
Cultural concepts that may be misunderstood by today’s audiences, Issue 50
Endings of the documents, Issue 46
First person plural pronouns, inclusive or exclusive, Issue 04
Focusing sets = (Chiasmus), Issue 17
Generic or abstract references that imply unimportance, Issue 44
Generic speech events, not specifying who spoke or to whom he spoke, Issue 10
Generic person or situation for specific person or situations, Issue 06
Greek idiom ‘to pronounce a blessing’, Issue 08
Greek idioms consisting of prepositions with divine names, Issue 36
Greek idioms with en and eis with ‘spirit’, Issue 37
Greek infinitive verbs that refer to a specific action or event, Issue 11
Greek subordinating conjunction ean (‘if…’), Issue 35
Greek verb ‘dei’, Issue 34
Hebrew idiom ‘son of...’ Issue 55
Implied emphatic extra-ordinary concept by negating an ordinary desirable concept
(Negative understatement), Issue 18
Intense statements, Issue 56
The speaker used a specific intense marker, an exclamation at the beginning or end of a unit,
or a warning at the beginning of the unit, or a strong vocative as a warning of danger.
Linked sets (Hendiadys), Issue 16
Negating a PAST event, attitude condition or situationImplied urging by negating an undesirable attitude or situation, Issue 51
The communicator urged someone to change an undesirable situation, an undesirable behavior
or an undesirable attitude by negating that undesirable concept.
Negating a PRESENT event, attitude condition or situation, Issue 52
Negating a FUTURE or INCOMPLETIVE event, attitude condition or situation, Issue 53
New information (to audience) and old information (to audience), Issue 41
Nouns communicating events, attributes, attitudes, situations or conditions, Issue 07
Overstatements, Issue 43
Exaggeration/hyperbole.
Positive understatements, Issue 38
The Process of human thinking, Issue 48
The communicator referred to someone thinking and/or making a decision.
References to a generic situation or a group of people but an intended specific meaning or application, Issue 23
First person SINGULAR pronoun while referring to a generic situation related to all human situations, Issue 05
First person SINGULAR pronouns referring specifically to the communicator, Issue 26, Issue 27, Issue 28
First person PLURAL pronouns that imply that the communicator identified himself or herself with a group that lives at that moment, affirming something about the group, Issue 70
First person PLURAL pronouns that imply that the communicator identified himself or herself with a group that lived in the past (who are long dead), Issue 72
First person PLURAL pronouns that imply an obligation to accept a basic truth by the audience, Issue 71
Second person SINGULAR pronouns directed to person(s) located close to communicator,
Issue 29, Issue 30, Issue 31
Second person PLURAL pronoun references in which the communicator was referring to people who were not within hearing, as well as those who were hearing him, Issue 68
Third person SINGULAR pronouns that imply third person plural meaning, Issue 32
Third person PLURAL pronouns reference, but only one person speaking, Issue 67
Third person SINGULAR pronoun references that imply first person singular (self), Issue 69, Issue 33
Third person PLURAL pronoun references in which the words of only one person have been recorded
(The people did not speak in unison as if they were trained to speak as a chorus), Issue 73
Prophetic announcements, Issue 23
Provoking someone (Sarcasm), Issue 42
References to ethic motive (‘conscience’), Issue 49
References to events or situations that imply a meaning ‘to authenticate’, Issue 63
A communicator referred to a speech or written sentence that he evaluated as authenticated.
These references have traditionally been called “prophecies”.
References to non-human things as if they were humans (Humanizations/Personifications),
Issue 12
References to persons being ‘filled with the Holy Spirit’, Issue 64
References to a person or group who experience intense emotions,
both desirable and undesirable, Issue 65
The concepts that are traditionally translated as ‘(being) filled with…’ and ‘full of…’
References to a person or group who has a characteristic quality, attitude or who do a characteristic activity, Issue 66
The concepts that are traditionally translated as ‘(being) filled with…’ and ‘full of…’
References to potential desirable attitudes, conditions or situations in order to imply that an undesirable attitude, condition or situation actually exists but someone should change it (Positive understatements), Issue 39
References to putting something in containers, Issue 61
References to units that imply the meaning ‘to complete’ [plahrow] Issue 62
The communicator referred to a set of the expected named units has been completed or will be completed.
Questions in the New Testament, Issue 02,
Different names for the same location, Issue 59
Different names for the same person, Issue 58
Different names for the same set of events, Issue 60
Specific person or situation references but intended generic person or situations, Issue 05
Statements that imply a different meaning (Irony), Issue 22
Strong affirmation of ordinary concept that implies extra-ordinary concept, Issue 19
Strong exclamation (Some of these have been traditionally called “Apostrophe”), Issue 09
Tasteful generic references instead of specific references, for propriety (Euphemism), Issue 13
Teaching with stories (Parables), Issue 40
Tell and Tell again (Doublets, triplets, quadruplets and more), Issue 14
The Title “…the Son of God…” Issue 74
The Title “…the Son of Man…” Issue 75
Various other titles and labels, Issue 76
Variant names of persons, locations or sets of events, Issue 20
Verbal clauses with no explicit subject or objects (Passives), Issue 21
Mismatch of ambiguities of different worldviews, Issue 24
Urgings and encouragements, Issue 25
(“Blessed are [=everyone should learn this attitude]…makarios),
(“Blessed is [=everyone should praise]…eulogemenos)
Warnings The Hebrew idiom “Woe to…”, Issue 5
the caution-command “Beware of…”; “Watch out for…” or “Be careful against…”;
a demand for attention;
a warning about a wrong attitude with a special description of the attitude;
an expression of horror or sorrow about some very undesirable event or its resulting condition.
Extended verbal comparisons, Issue 80-89
Extended noun comparisons, Issue 90-99
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