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FAQ: What do the different font styles mean?


Ariel is the font used in the postings to the Bible Haiku lists.

Variations in font size are not significant.

The variations in style signify:

Font Style

Significance

Plain

The source of the Bible Haiku is a Bible verse fragment

Bold

The source of the Bible Haiku is a complete Bible verse

Plain with
Red Italics

The source of the Bible Haiku is a Bible verse fragment quoting Jesus. The portion of the verse spoken by Jesus is in red italics.

Bold with
Red Italics

The source of the Bible Haiku is a complete Bible verse quoting Jesus.  The portion of the verse spoken by Jesus is in bold red italics.

Further examples

Style

Descriptions, examples, and types

Plain

A simple Bible Haiku from a single Bible verse fragment:
Type 01

...He that is mighty
Hath done to me great things; and
Holy is his name.

Luke 1:49 KJV

A simple Bible Haiku from consecutive Bible verse fragments:
Type 05

Put your hope in God,
For I will yet praise him, my 
Savior and my God.

Psalm 42:5-6 NIV

Verse 6 starts with "my God."

A compound Bible Haiku from a single Bible verse fragment:
Type 09

It may be they will
Listen, and every one turn
From his evil way,

That I may repent
Of the evil which I
Intend to do to them…

Jeremiah 26:3 RSV

A compound Bible Haiku from consecutive Bible verse fragments:
Type 13

"...Spring up, O well! Sing
About it, about the well
That the princes dug,

That the nobles of
The people sank--the nobles
With scepters and staffs."

Numbers 21:17-18 NIV

Verse 18 begins at "about the well..."

Bold

A simple Bible Haiku from a single complete Bible verse:
Type 02

Then what had been spoken
Through Jeremiah
The prophet was fulfilled…

Matthew 2:17 NASU

A 6-5-6 complete Bible verse BH.

Confessing their sins,
They were baptized by him in
The Jordan River.

Matthew 3:6 NIV

A complete Bible verse BH

A simple Bible Haiku from consecutive complete Bible verses:
Type 06

Greet one another
With a holy kiss.  All the
Saints send their greetings.

2 Corinthians 13:12-13 NIV

Two complete Bible verses. 
Verse 13 begins at "All..."

They gave him a piece
Of  broiled fish, and he took it
And ate before them.

Luke 24:42-43 RSV

Two complete Bible verses.
Verse 43 begins at: "and he took it..."

A compound Bible Haiku from a single complete Bible verse:
Type 10

I would lead you and
Bring you to my mother’s house-
She who has taught me. 

I would give you spiced
Wine to drink, the nectar of
My pomegranates.

Song of Solomon 8:2 NIV

A complete Bible verse double BH

A compound Bible Haiku from consecutive complete Bible verses:
Type 14

"For sighing comes to
Me instead of food; my groans
Pour out like water.

"What I feared has come
Upon me; what I dreaded
Has happened to me.


"I have no peace, no
Quietness; I have no rest,
But only turmoil."

Job 003:024-26 NIV

Three consecutive complete Bible verse BH

Plain with
Red Italics

A simple Bible Haiku from a single Bible verse fragment, quoting Jesus:
Type 03

Blessed are they that
Have been persecuted for
Righteousness' sake...

Matthew 5:10 ASV

...And he began by
Saying to them, "Today this
Scripture is fulfilled..."

Luke 4:21 NIV

...I am the bread of life:
He that cometh to me
Shall never hunger...

John 6:35 KJV

A 6-6-5 verse fragment.

A simple Bible Haiku from consecutive Bible verse fragments, quoting Jesus:
Type 07
None of this type identified so far.

A compound Bible Haiku from a single Bible verse fragment, quoting Jesus:
Type 11
None of this type identified so far.

A compound Bible Haiku from consecutive Bible verse fragments, quoting Jesus:
Type 15
None of this type identified so far.

 Bold with
Red Italics

A simple Bible Haiku from a single complete Bible verse, quoting Jesus:
Type 04

Then He said to them,
“Follow Me, and I will make
You fishers of men.”

Matthew 4:19 NKJV

A complete Bible verse BH

“Blessed are the poor
In spirit, for theirs is the
Kingdom of heaven.”

Matthew 5:3 NIV

A complete Bible verse BH

So Jesus answered
Them,
"My teaching is not mine,
But his who sent me..."

John 7:16 RSV

A complete Bible verse BH

A simple Bible Haiku from consecutive complete Bible verses, quoting Jesus:
Type 08
None of this type identified so far.

A compound Bible Haiku from a single complete Bible verse, quoting Jesus:
Type 12

"Whoever has will
Be given more, and he will
Have an abundance.

Whoever does not
Have, even what he has will
Be taken from him."

Matthew 13:12 NIV

A complete Bible verse double BH

A compound Bible Haiku from consecutive complete Bible verses, quoting Jesus:
Type 16
None of this type identified so far.



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