This article aimed to analyze the figurative language used in Bible Old Testament. The objectives of this research are find out types and meanings To data, author uses main theory proposed by Knickerbocker Reninger (1963) entitled Interpreting Literature meaning Leech (1981) Semantics. analyzed data using a qualitative method. were collected reading Bible, taking note classifying sentences that...

1.1 The Task D o m a i n Here we address the problem of mapping phrase meanings into their conceptual representations. Figurative phrases are pervasive in human communication, yet they are difficult to explain theoretically. In fact, the ability to handle idiosyncratic behavior of phrases should be a criterion for any theory of lexical representation. Due to the huge number of such phrases in t...