God reveals Himself in the Bible with a variety of special names reflecting therein some true aspect of His multifacted character. There are other "names of God in the Scriptures which draw upon creation, human experience, and even parts of the human body.

God is compared to a lion (Isa. 31:4), an eagle (Deut. 32:11), a lamb (Isa. 53:7), a hen (Matt. 23:37), the sun (Ps. 84:11), the morning star (Rev. 22:16), a light (Ps. 27:1), a torch (Rev. 21:23), a fire (Heb. 12:29), a fountain (Ps. 36:9), a rock (Deut. 32:4), a hiding place (Ps. 119:114), a tower (Prov. 18:10), a shadow (Ps. 91:1), a shield (Ps. 84:11), a temple (Rev. 21:22), and even more!

God is called bridegroom (Is. 61:10), husband (Isa. 54:5), father (Deut. 32:6), judge and king (Isa. 33:22), man of war (Ex. 15:3), builder and maker (Heb. 11:10), physician (Ex. 15:26), and more. God is spoken of in terms of human actions such as knowing (Gen. 18:21), remembering (Gen. 8:1; Ex. 2:24), seeing (Gen. 1:10), hearing (Ex. 2:24), smelling (Gen. 8:21), tasting (Ps. 11:5), sitting (Ps. 9:7), rising (Ps. 68:1), walking (Lev. 26:12), wiping away tears (Isa. 25:8), and more. Human emotions are attributed to God, like joy (Isa. 62:5), grief (Ps. 78:40; Isa. 63:10), anger (Jer. 7:18-19), love (John 3:16), hatred (Deut. 16:22), wrath (Ps. 2:5), and more.

Even though God does not have a physical body, Scripture uses various parts of the human body to describe God's activities in a metaphorical way. The bible speaks of God's face or countenance (Ex. 33:20, 23; Isa. 63:9; Ps. 16:11; Rev. 22:4), eyes (Ps. 11:4; Heb. 4:13), eyelids (Ps. 11:4), ears (Ps. 55:1; Isa. 59:1), nose (Deut. 33:10), mouth (Deut. 8:3), lips (Job 11:5), tongue (Isa. 30:27), neck (Jer. 18:17), arms (Ex. 15:16), hand (Num. 11:23), finger (Ex. 8:19), heart (Gen. 6:6), foot (Isa. 66:1), and more.

What is the purpose behind all these and similar passages?

• God, who is transcendent to His creation, is knowable because He has revealed Himself.
• In one sense or another all of creation discloses something about God to us. Nonetheless, humanity, made in God's image (imago Dei) reveals Him most fully.
• All that Scripture says about God uses anthropomorphic language - language that speaks of God in human terms.
• The great diversity of descriptions about God in His self revelation to us is only a means of helping us understand and appreciate something of His matchless, incomparable, infinite character. God has made the universe so that it would show forth excellence of Himself as its Creator.

The Ten Jehovah Titles