Objects — F
Biblical objects starting with the letter F — click any entry to open its page when available.
14 objects
field
Cultivated land; the feast of Harvest is the first-fruits of labours in sowing the fields, and Ingathering comes once the fruits are brought in from the fields.
Genesis 23, 25, 33, 47, 49-50Exodus 1, 22-23Landfig-leaves
Fig leaves were sewn by Adam and Eve as makeshift coverings after the fall.
Genesis 3Garmentfine-linen
They make the ephod, breastplate, robe hem, tunics, turban, head-dresses, breeches and waistbands of finely woven linen. The court hangings are also of this linen.
Exodus 25-28, 35-36, 38-39MaterialDwellingPriestly garmentfire
There is fire inside Yahweh's cloud at night, for the whole House of Israel to see at every stage of their journey.
Genesis 19, 22Exodus 12, 19, 22, 24, 35, 40Biblical imageryPassoverTheophanyfirepot
A smoking firepot appears in Abram's covenant vision, passing between the divided pieces.
Genesis 15Covenant signfirst-fruits
The feast of Weeks is the first-fruits of the wheat harvest; Israel must bring the best of the first-fruits of the soil to the house of Yahweh.
Exodus 23, 34FeastOfferingflint
On the journey back to Egypt Zipporah takes a flint, circumcises her son, and touches Moses' feet, calling him her blood-bridegroom.
Exodus 4Circumcisionflour
Sarah kneaded fine flour to prepare loaves for Abraham's guests. At the priests' consecration the unleavened bread, cakes and wafers are of fine wheat flour; each daily lamb is offered with one-tenth of a measure of fine flour mixed with oil.
Genesis 18Exodus 29ProvisionSacrificeflower
They make the flower -- the symbol of holy consecration -- of pure gold and engrave on it, like a seal, 'Consecrated to Yahweh'. They put it on a violet-purple cord, high up on the turban.
Exodus 28-29, 39Priestly garmentfodder
Fodder is prepared for the camels when Abraham's servant is hosted in Rebekah's household and for the brothers' donkeys at Joseph's house in Genesis 43.
Genesis 24, 43Animal careforeskin
Foreskin circumcision is the Abrahamic covenant sign; in Exodus 4 Zipporah cuts off her son's foreskin with a flint to avert Yahweh's threat on the journey.
Genesis 17Exodus 4Covenant signframes
Moses sets up the Dwelling's frames when he erects it on the first of the first month.
Exodus 26, 35-36, 40Dwellingfrankincense
Pure frankincense, in equal parts with storax, onycha and galbanum, is compounded into a salted, pure, and holy incense. Some is ground very fine and put in front of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting.
Exodus 30SpiceIncensefrogs
Frogs are the next plague promised to Pharaoh; they swarm into homes, bedrooms, ovens and kneading bowls in Exodus 7.
Exodus 7PlagueAmphibian