Hyperbole is effective as a literary device in many ways.

Example of hyperbole in bible verse. Hyperbole should not be taken literally. This is an example the kind of problem a Bible translation can cause if one is not informed of the various figures of speech found in the Bible. Everyone could sling stones at a hair and not miss They were very accurate.

For example this verse is a hyperbole an exaggeration for effect. A few other examples of the many hundreds of hyperboles in the Bible are. One hyperbole that often gets trotted out by people who want to paint Christianity in a negative light is Luke 1426 Jesus speaking.

Take John 439 as an example. And all the people whom we saw in it are men of great size. 2324 NIV It is not too difficult to determine that this is a hyperbole an exaggeration.

Hyperbole a figure of speech that. Luke 925 Luke 104. And if your right hand makes you stumble cut it off and throw it from you.

The examples given above are only some of the hyperboles found in Matthew Mark and Luke. For it is better for you that one of the parts of your body perish than for your whole body to go into hell Matt. If thy right eye offend thee pluck it out Matt.

The camel was the largest animal regularly seen in Israel and its contrast with the small size of a needles eye shows the utter impossibility of the effort to squeeze the former through the latter. An apostate anti-theist atheist claimed that cut off your hand was a literal saying of Jesus about masturbation. For example if the writer is using hyperbole and the.