SUMMARY
Emotions are an essential part of human existence and the communication (verbalas well as non-verbal) thereof is fundamental to everyday interaction. Furthermore,the way in which emotions are expressed and interpreted is crucial to interpersonalrelations. This paper contends that our biblical counterparts employed differentverbal (literal as well as figurative) strategies to express an infinite number ofemotional states. One such strategy is conceptual metaphor. It is argued that thereis a link between the metaphorical conceptualization and articulation of emotions.Moreover, the investigation shows that different metaphorical source domains areused to express specific emotions. By taking recourse to cognitive linguistics, thiscontribution examines the relevant linguistic evidence from the Old Testament as ameans of illuminating the aforementioned notions.