Topical Bible: Frames

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In biblical literature, the term "frames" can refer to various structural or metaphorical elements, often associated with construction, craftsmanship, or the human body. The concept of frames is woven throughout Scripture, illustrating both physical and spiritual truths.

1. Frames in Construction and Craftsmanship

The Bible frequently mentions frames in the context of building and craftsmanship, particularly in the construction of sacred spaces. In the construction of the Tabernacle, frames played a crucial role. Exodus 26:15-17 describes the frames used for the Tabernacle: "You are to construct upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle. Each frame is to be ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide. Two tenons must be connected to each other for each frame. Make all the frames of the tabernacle in this way."

These frames provided the structural integrity necessary for the Tabernacle, symbolizing the strength and stability of God's dwelling place among His people. The use of acacia wood, known for its durability, further emphasizes the enduring nature of God's covenant and presence.

2. Frames as Metaphors for Human Life

Frames are also used metaphorically in Scripture to describe the human body and life. In Psalm 139:15 , David reflects on God's intimate knowledge of his being: "My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth." Here, "frame" refers to the physical body, intricately designed by God. This passage highlights the divine craftsmanship involved in human creation, underscoring the sanctity and intentionality of life.

3. Frames in Prophetic and Poetic Imagery

Prophetic and poetic books of the Bible often employ the imagery of frames to convey deeper spiritual truths. In Ezekiel 40:21 , the prophet describes a vision of a future temple: "Its alcoves, its projecting walls, and its portico had the same measurements as the others. Its portico was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide." The detailed description of frames and measurements in Ezekiel's vision symbolizes the order and precision of God's divine plan, as well as the restoration and hope for Israel.

4. Frames in the Context of Judgment and Restoration

The concept of frames can also be found in discussions of judgment and restoration. In Isaiah 58:12 , the prophet speaks of rebuilding and restoration: "Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins; you will restore the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of Streets of Dwelling." Here, the restoration of physical structures serves as a metaphor for spiritual renewal and the reestablishment of righteousness.

5. Frames in Wisdom Literature

In wisdom literature, frames are sometimes used to describe the structure of moral and ethical living. Proverbs 24:3-4 states, "By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; through knowledge its rooms are filled with every precious and beautiful treasure." The "house" in this proverb can be seen as a metaphorical frame for a life built on wisdom, understanding, and knowledge, leading to a life filled with spiritual riches.

In summary, the concept of frames in the Bible encompasses both literal and metaphorical meanings, illustrating themes of construction, divine craftsmanship, spiritual order, and restoration. Whether referring to the physical structures of sacred spaces or the metaphorical framework of human life, frames serve as a reminder of God's intricate design and purpose throughout Scripture.

Strong's Hebrew

7948. shelabbim -- joining pieces (of stands)
... 7947, 7948. shelabbim. 7949 . joining pieces (of stands). Transliteration:
shelabbim Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-lawb') Short Definition: frames. ...
/hebrew/7948.htm - 6k

8261. shaquph -- frame, casing
... 8260, 8261. shaquph or shaquph. 8262 . frame, casing. Transliteration: shaquph
or shaquph Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-koof') Short Definition: frames. ...
/hebrew/8261.htm - 6k

8260. sheqeph -- framework, casing (of doors)
... 8259, 8260. sheqeph. 8261 . framework, casing (of doors). Transliteration:
sheqeph Phonetic Spelling: (sheh'-kef) Short Definition: frames. ...
/hebrew/8260.htm - 6k

7175b. qeresh -- board, boards
... Word Origin from an unused word Definition board, boards NASB Word Usage board
(17), boards (32), deck (1), frames (1). 7175a, 7175b. qeresh. 7176 . ...
/hebrew/7175b.htm - 5k

6775. tsamad -- to bind, join
... Word Origin a prim. root Definition to bind, join NASB Word Usage fastened
(1), frames (1), joined (3). fasten, frame, join self. ...
/hebrew/6775.htm - 6k

Library

Instability
... Have we not this day to lament that we have been very changeable and inconstant,
even unstable as water? How unstable have we been in our frames? ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 3 1857/instability.htm

The Worthy Communicant
... I am convinced of sin; I am converted; I have the right frames, and the right feelings,
and the right experiences.' Oh, of all the cunning snares of the devil ...
/.../kingsley/the good news of god/sermon xxxvii the worthy communicant.htm

None of These Answers Will You Give Us. You Turn to Other Things ...
... up in the new Jerusalem? c6. Of the devil he thus frames his opinion. 5.
None of these answers will you give us. You turn to other ...
/.../5 none of these answers.htm

Sixth Tractate. The Impassivity of the Unembodied.
... be in our system " or in our liking " to bring the Soul down to participation in
such modes and modifications as the warmth and cold of material frames. ...
/.../plotinus/the six enneads/sixth tractate the impassivity of.htm

The Comforter
... which really pious and good people commit, is, that they think the Holy Spirit of
God to be merely, or little beside, certain pleasant frames, and feelings ...
/.../kingsley/all saints day and other sermons/sermon xiv the comforter.htm

God's Offspring
... not call ourselves God's children yet; we are not spiritual enough; but when we
have gone through all the necessary changes of heart, and frames, and feeling ...
/.../kingsley/sermons for the times/sermon xvi gods offspring.htm

Discourse IV.
... For as He frames the creatures by the Word, so according to the nature of His own
Essence has He the Word as an Offspring, through whom He frames and creates ...
/.../athanasius/select works and letters or athanasius/discourse iv.htm

How Can I Obtain Faith?
... Faith hath something firmer to stand upon than those ever-changing frames and feelings
which, like the weather of our own sunless land, is fickle and frail ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 18 1872/how can i obtain faith.htm

Who is on the Lord's Side? Exodus 32:26.
... 13. They live very much on their own frames of mind. They lay great stress
on the particular emotions which they have from time to time. ...
/.../finney/lectures to professing christians/who is on the lords 2.htm

Duty and Superstition
... acts of worship,' 'mortification,' 'penitence,' and 'good works.' Others wonder
no less why it says nothing about what are called 'Christian frames and feelings ...
/.../kingsley/sermons for the times/sermon vii duty and superstition.htm

Thesaurus

Frames (47 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Frames (47 Occurrences). Exodus ... gold. (BBE). Exodus
28:13 And you are to make twisted frames of gold; (BBE). ...
/f/frames.htm - 17k

Window-frames (1 Occurrence)
Window-frames. Window, Window-frames. Windows . Multi-Version
Concordance Window-frames (1 Occurrence). 1 Kings 7:4 ...
/w/window-frames.htm - 6k

Twisted (79 Occurrences)
... work of a jeweller, like the cutting of a stamp, the names of the children of Israel
are to be cut on them, and they are to be fixed in twisted frames of gold. ...
/t/twisted.htm - 28k

Fixed (284 Occurrences)
... work of a jeweller, like the cutting of a stamp, the names of the children of Israel
are to be cut on them, and they are to be fixed in twisted frames of gold. ...
/f/fixed.htm - 35k

Lines (42 Occurrences)
... supports on the pillars. (BBE). 1 Kings 7:4 There were three lines of
window-frames, window facing window in every line. (BBE). 1 Kings 7 ...
/l/lines.htm - 19k

Framing (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Frame. 2. (n.) The act, process, or style of putting together
a frame, or of constructing anything; a frame; that which frames. ...
/f/framing.htm - 7k

Topaz (7 Occurrences)
... Exodus 28:20 The fourth, a topaz, a beryl, and a jasper; they are to be fixed in
twisted frames of gold. (BBE). Exodus 39:10 They set in it four rows of stones. ...
/t/topaz.htm - 9k

Stamp (25 Occurrences)
... work of a jeweller, like the cutting of a stamp, the names of the children of Israel
are to be cut on them, and they are to be fixed in twisted frames of gold. ...
/s/stamp.htm - 16k

Facing (79 Occurrences)
... sides of the pool. (BBE). 1 Kings 7:4 There were three lines of window-frames,
window facing window in every line. (BBE NIV). 1 Kings 7 ...
/f/facing.htm - 31k

Cutting (178 Occurrences)
... work of a jeweller, like the cutting of a stamp, the names of the children of Israel
are to be cut on them, and they are to be fixed in twisted frames of gold. ...
/c/cutting.htm - 46k

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Frames (47 Occurrences)

Exodus 26:15
"You shall make the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing up.
(See RSV NIV)

Exodus 26:17
There shall be two tenons in each board, joined to one another: thus you shall make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
(See RSV NIV)

Exodus 26:18
You shall make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side southward.
(See RSV NIV)

Exodus 26:19
You shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.
(See RSV)

Exodus 26:20
For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, twenty boards,
(See RSV NIV)

Exodus 26:22
For the far part of the tabernacle westward you shall make six boards.
(See RSV NIV)

Exodus 26:23
You shall make two boards for the corners of the tabernacle in the far part.
(See RSV NIV)

Exodus 26:25
There shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
(See RSV NIV)

Exodus 26:26
"You shall make bars of acacia wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
(See RSV NIV)

Exodus 26:27
and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the far part westward.
(See RSV NIV)

Exodus 26:28
The middle bar in the midst of the boards shall pass through from end to end.
(See RSV NIV)

Exodus 26:29
You shall overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and you shall overlay the bars with gold.
(See RSV NIV)

Exodus 28:11
With the work of a jeweller, like the cutting of a stamp, the names of the children of Israel are to be cut on them, and they are to be fixed in twisted frames of gold.
(BBE)

Exodus 28:13
And you are to make twisted frames of gold;
(BBE)

Exodus 28:14
And two chains of the best gold, twisted like cords; and have the chains fixed on to the frames.
(BBE)

Exodus 28:20
The fourth, a topaz, a beryl, and a jasper; they are to be fixed in twisted frames of gold.
(BBE)

Exodus 28:25
Joining the other ends of the chains to the gold frames and putting them on the front of the ephod, at the top of the arms.
(BBE)

Exodus 35:11
the tabernacle, its outer covering, its roof, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets;
(See RSV NIV)

Exodus 36:20
He made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing up.
(See RSV NIV)

Exodus 36:22
Each board had two tenons, joined one to another. He made all the boards of the tabernacle this way.
(See RSV NIV)

Exodus 36:23
He made the boards for the tabernacle: twenty boards for the south side southward.
(See RSV NIV)

Exodus 36:24
He made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.
(See RSV)

Exodus 36:25
For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty boards,
(See RSV NIV)

Exodus 36:27
For the far part of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.
(See RSV NIV)

Exodus 36:28
He made two boards for the corners of the tabernacle in the far part.
(See RSV NIV)

Exodus 36:29
They were double beneath, and in like manner they were all the way to its top to one ring. He did thus to both of them in the two corners.
(See NIV)

Exodus 36:30
There were eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; under every board two sockets.
(See RSV NIV)

Exodus 36:31
He made bars of acacia wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
(See RSV NIV)

Exodus 36:32
and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the hinder part westward.
(See RSV NIV)

Exodus 36:33
He made the middle bar to pass through in the midst of the boards from the one end to the other.
(See RSV NIV)

Exodus 36:34
He overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold for places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
(See RSV NIV)

Exodus 39:6
Then they made the beryl stones, fixed in twisted frames of gold and cut like the cutting of a stamp, with the names of the children of Israel.
(BBE)

Exodus 39:13
In the fourth, a topaz, a beryl, and a jasper; they were fixed in twisted frames of gold.
(BBE)

Exodus 39:16
And they made two gold frames and two gold rings, the rings being fixed to the ends of the priest's bag;
(BBE)

Exodus 39:18
And the other two ends of the chains were joined to the two frames and fixed to the front of the ephod over the arm-holes.
(BBE)

Exodus 39:33
They brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent, with all its furniture, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,
(See RSV NIV)

Exodus 40:18
Moses raised up the tabernacle, and laid its sockets, and set up its boards, and put in its bars, and raised up its pillars.
(See RSV NIV)

Numbers 3:36
The appointed duty of the sons of Merari shall be the tabernacle's boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, all its instruments, all its service,
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 4:31
This is the duty of their burden, according to all their service in the Tent of Meeting: the tabernacle's boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,
(See RSV NIV)

1 Kings 6:4
For the house he made windows of fixed lattice work.
(See NAS RSV)

1 Kings 7:4
There were three lines of window-frames, window facing window in every line.
(BBE NAS RSV)

1 Kings 7:5
And all the doors and windows had square frames, with the windows facing one another in three lines.
(BBE NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 7:28
And the bases were made in this way; their sides were square, fixed in a framework;
(See NAS RSV)

1 Kings 7:32
The four wheels were under the frames, and the rods on which the wheels were fixed were in the base; the wheels were a cubit and a half high.
(BBE)

1 Kings 7:36
In the spaces of the flat sides and on the frames of them, he made designs of winged ones, lions, and palm-trees, with ornamented edges all round.
(BBE)

2 Kings 16:17
King Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases, and removed the basin from off them, and took down the sea from off the bronze oxen that were under it, and put it on a pavement of stone.
(See RSV)

Psalms 50:19
"You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.
(WEB NAS RSV)

Subtopics

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