Speaking of figures of speech in the Bible, Scripture is full of all sorts of them:

similes
metaphors
implications
parables
mysteries
allegories
myths
visions
signs
types
shadows
examples
images and imagery
enigmas
symbols
codes
idioms
poetry
euphemisms
sarcasm
irony
puns and other plays on words
hyperbole and other exaggerations
anthropomorphisms or personifications
condescensions
diminutives
association or metonymy
appellations
compound associations
near associations
circumlocutions or periphrasis
paradoxes
numerology and possibly gematria
omitted nouns
omitted verbs
unfinished sentences
omission or non-sequence

(To name just a few, I could go on)

Remember that just because a passage seems like it should be interpreted literally in Scripture doesn’t necessarily mean that it definitely should be.